Alpha Delta Pi and Sigma Phi Epsilon’s national Live Your Oath campaign made its way to Iowa State’s greek community Wednesday night. An open house was held at Alpha Delta Pi, where students could gain information on sexual assault and sign a pledge to live their oath of doing what they can to prevent sexual assault.

The Live Your Oath campaign is a combined effort to spread awareness of sexual assault on college campuses and among the greek community.

 “I learned a lot about it at our national convention this summer,” said Rachael Barnes, junior in civil engineering and Alpha Delta Pi’s chapter president. “Live Your Oath is mostly just promoting awareness of sexual assault on college campuses, so we decided it was best to reach out to the whole greek community to host an event that would allow all of us to spread awareness of sexual assault.”

Attendees were also able to put their handprints on a banner and sign their names in addition to taking pictures with oath cards and a looping informational video.

 “We learned a lot of facts that we didn’t know before,” said Mikaela Meierhofer, senior in Architecture-Professional Degree and member of Phi Beta Chi, who found out about the event through a Facebook invite.

The walls in the courtyard of Alpha Delta Pi featured statistics related to sexual assault on college campus, like “most college victims are assaulted by someone they know,” or “ACCESS of Ames provides free and confidential services.”

The largest sign was a sheet hung from the ceiling that read “Live Your Oath. Show the world what we actually stand for.” The saying is featured on the main page of the campaign’s website www.liveyouroath.com.

 “I think they’re starting to find different avenues,” said Rachel Roberts, a senior in elementary education and member of Phi Beta Chi. “There are events like this, or even Lady Gaga’s new song where she highlights it. I think that this is a good step, and I think getting the greek community involved is really good just because our greek community is so large. I think it’s going to be really important to get the rest of campus involved as well.”

The national campaign asks individual chapters’ executive board members to engage in conversation with their chapters and even with broader audiences, and to post photos on social media with “I Took an Oath” cards provided by the campaign.