The Delta Gamma Foundation hosted its annual “Let’s Talk About It” presentation to inform incoming students about sexual assault and violence. Becky Tieder and Kelly Addington were asked to come to SMU’s campus to share their story about sexual assault. Tieder and Addington began the lecture by engaging the audience and asking them, how many of them have ever been to a party and had too much to drink and did something they would usually never do if sober? Some audience members timidly lifted their hands in the air. Both women continued to keep the mood light-hearted by asking the audience questions and making a few jokes. The mood soon shifted as Addington began to share the experience she had when she was sexually assaulted.Addington said she was a senior in college and had invited a young man over to spend the weekend with her to meet her friends, so she took him to a local bar, and unfortunately the night did not go as planned. After three drinks, she began to feel sick and her vision was blurred. She asked the young man to take her back to her apartment and after that, her memory of the rest of the night becomes vague.A couple months passed after seeing this young man and she began to have nightmares in which she was trapped and unable to escape. She said the nightmares began to occur each night. She then realized her menstrual cycle was two months late, so she took a pregnancy test. To her horror, the pregnancy test was positive.”I felt for the first time in my life like I was nothing,” Addington said. She called the young man and asked him what happened that night. He told her they had sex because she was “all over him,” according to the young man.Addington later discovered her story was similar to other women’s stories and it angered her, so she decided to speak out about it. She admits that she still has nightmares, but instead of waking up afraid, she sees the faces of other women who will be or have already been sexually assaulted. She asked the audience, “What will you do to make the nightmares stop?” Addington and Tieder also offered resources such as the health center or the Women’s Center to those who are victims of sexual assault.”Life is best if lived without fear but awareness,” Tieder said.