In an auditorium built for just 385 people, the crowd that came to see Green Party Candidate Jill Stein still remained far below capacity. In a room of around 100 people and one crying baby, most of whom were not Penn State students, the presidential hopeful gave her speech on immigration, climate change, civil rights and the economy.

Kicking off the rally was YahNé Ndgo, a former “Bernie or Bust” supporter discussed what Stein has done for the environment.

“It is hard for a candidate to say trees should be honored,” Ndgo said. “There are people standing in the line of these machines, and she is one of them.”

After Ndgo spoke, Stein came to the stage and began her speech with what her climate policy would be, as well as what should have been done differently to prevent the current state of climate change.

Stein said it is a time to be brave in the face of large corporations that are harming the environment. There should have been arrest warrants issued from the people in charge of the Dakota Pipeline, who Stein described as “vandals.”

Stein also called for an end to genetically modified organisms in food, and said there are just a handful of companies that control all of the food in the United States.

Stein’s platform calls for an ending of fossil fuel use.

“We call for an immediate ban on all fossil fuel infrastructure,” Stein said. “Our goal is 100 percent clean, renewable energy- wind, water and solar only.”

The Green New Deal would create 20 million new jobs, and it would pay for itself in health benefits alone, Stein said.

“We have the power right now. We have the power to stand up and say no,” Stein said. “We need to be mobilized and become the modes of change.”

Stein then transitioned into her views on social rights issues, specifically the Black Lives Matter movement. Stein also referenced the recent police killings of two black men that she said were, “murdered in broad daylight with impunity”.

After this, Stein moved her speech to problems that immigrants in America are facing, saying it is time to stop the immigration crisis in the U.S. and to repeal the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Stein also referenced Republican Candidate Donald Trump’s positions and potential policies regarding immigration.

“We don’t need your friggin’ wall, we just need to stop invading other countries,” Stein said.

Stein then talked about the need to help students who are in a lot of debt because of higher education.

If the government found a way to bail out the people of Wall Street, then they should be able to bail out students, whose debt is far lower than the Wall Street stimulus package, Stein said.

“We rely on young people to remake the economy,” she said. “This is the stimulus package of their dreams.”

Stein also said it is time to have free public higher education throughout the country, and said it would pay for itself.

Later, Stein talked at length about running for president as a third party candidate. She reminded the now smaller audience that there are more than two “deadly” choices, and they can stand up to demand what they deserve.

“It is important to wake the people up and remind them that Donald Trump is horrible and despicable, but Hillary Clinton has a terrible record,” she said.

Stein also spoke about the fact that her campaign has not been getting the same amount of media attention that the other two main candidates are getting. Most people agree with her message, but they just don’t know about her campaign, Stein said.

Though Stein pointed out that you don’t have to vote for the “lesser of two evils,” it is unclear if that message is resonating with potential voters, or if they are still seeing it as voting for a third party candidate means potentially putting Clinton or Trump in the White House.

“I believe in fighting for third party recognition, but this is a big election, and I might have to vote for one of the other two to ensure the other does not win,” Richard Spicer (senior-community environment development) said.

The final thing that Stein spoke about was the fact that she and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson will not be included in the first presidential debate because they failed to meet the 15 percent polling threshold. Stein is polling at three percent nationally, and Johnson is polling at 8.6 percent nationally, according to the RealClearPolitics polling aggregate.

“Seventy-six percent of the public want to hold an open debate between all four presidential candidates,” Stein said. “Otherwise it is a scam, not a debate."

This speech was seen as a big moment for Stein’s campaign by Penn State Green Party chair, Tim Gleason. They were happy to see Stein was providing scientific backings to some of the claims they have made and that it may have given her more credibility, Gleason said.

“The sort of things she said are all scientifically normative, good ideas,” Gleason said.