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UK's Green Dot Featured on Fusion Network

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 22, 2014) -- Earlier this fall, Alicia Menendez of Fusion, a news and pop culture TV and digital network, visited the University of Kentucky to explore  why the White House recently acknowledged UK’s Green Dot approach as an effective prevention to sexual assault.

Green Dot is unique because it attempts to prevent violence before it happens. It’s working to create a campus-wide culture that encourages intervention and relies on students to look out for one another,” said Menendez.

The anchor for “Alicia Menendez Tonight” interviewed President Eli Capilouto, Director of the Violence Intervention and Prevention Center Rhonda Henry and several students, including senior Allyson Lough.

“But just as much as I would intervene,” Lough said, “I’m trusting that my fellow student, my peer, someone in their 18 to 20s, someone who is also a University of Kentucky Wildcat, is willing to recognize that we are similar, and that we respect each other enough for them to step in for me.”

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