{"id":76957,"date":"2015-10-17T11:54:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=76957"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:25:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T16:25:39","slug":"woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman with Down syndrome becomes first to join sorority at Murray State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Alexis Cain has become the first member of a sorority at Murray State University in Kentucky to have Down syndrome. Her Alpha Sigma Alpha sisters say she has changed their lives for the better and it seems they have done the same for her.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MeredithShow\/videos\/832315970223384\/\" data-width=\"500\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MeredithShow\/videos\/832315970223384\/\"><p>Alpha Sigma Alpha at Murray State University made history, when Alexis Cain joined their sisterhood. As the first member&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MeredithShow\">The Meredith Vieira Show<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MeredithShow\/videos\/832315970223384\/\">Monday, October 5, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI always wanted to have sisters and so now I got them,\u201d Cain told Meredith Vieira.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Though her parents, Brian and Camme Cain, weren\u2019t at all surprised their daughter decided to join a sorority, her mother was apprehensive. Worried that someone might make comments about her daughter having Down syndrome, she soon realized that the sorority sisters saw Alexis as a person. She says the moment that Cain received her bid from Alpha Sigma Alpha was one of the best moments she would ever have.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76958\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76958\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-76958 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Alexis-and-Tori-700x700.jpg\" alt=\"Alexis and Tori via Facebook\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Alexis-and-Tori-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Alexis-and-Tori-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Alexis-and-Tori-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Alexis-and-Tori.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-76958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexis and Tori via Facebook<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As a sister, Cain was assigned a &#8216;big&#8217; or a big sister to help guide her. Her &#8216;big&#8217; is Tori Wood, who has nothing but love to show Cain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honestly cannot imagine my life without Alexis,\u201d Wood told Vieira through tears. \u201cShe shows me how to be myself and she embraces who she is and she loves everyone else for who they are. [\u2026] She has helped me be the woman that I want to be. [\u2026] She reminds me of the beautifulness in life and the simplicity in life and how pure life is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Cain, she is thrilled to be a member of Alpha Sigma Alpha and loves so spend time with her sorority sisters because they have similar tastes in music and hobbies. She said that while she was choosing a sorority, she knew they were the one. They treat her as a human being, not a disability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey love me the way I am. My syndrome does not define me,\u201d said Cain. \u201cThey really love me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Cain has become the first member of a sorority at Murray State University in Kentucky to have Down syndrome. Her Alpha Sigma Alpha sisters say she has changed their lives for the better and it seems they have done the same for her. Alpha Sigma Alpha at Murray State University made history, when Alexis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":77275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[429,5640,5587],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Woman with Down syndrome becomes first to join sorority at Murray State<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;She shows me how to be myself and she embraces who she is and she loves everyone else for who they are.&quot; ~ Alexis&#039;s sorority sister, Tori Wood\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Woman with Down syndrome becomes first to join sorority at Murray State\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;She shows me how to be myself and she embraces who she is and she loves everyone else for who they are.&quot; ~ Alexis&#039;s sorority sister, Tori Wood\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-10-17T15:54:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-10-16T16:25:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/alexis-sorority.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"672\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"372\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nancy Flanders\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nancy Flanders\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nancy Flanders\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef\"},\"headline\":\"Woman with Down syndrome becomes first to join sorority at Murray State\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-10-17T15:54:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-10-16T16:25:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/\"},\"wordCount\":352,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Down syndrome\",\"Meredith Vieira\",\"sorority\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Issues\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/\",\"name\":\"Woman with Down syndrome becomes first to join sorority at Murray State\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-10-17T15:54:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-10-16T16:25:39+00:00\",\"description\":\"\\\"She shows me how to be myself and she embraces who she is and she loves everyone else for who they are.\\\" ~ Alexis's sorority sister, Tori Wood\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Woman with Down syndrome becomes first to join sorority at Murray State\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, &amp; Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef\",\"name\":\"Nancy Flanders\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nancy Flanders\"},\"description\":\"Nancy Flanders is Associate Editor for Live Action News. She has 25 years of experience writing and editing. For more than a decade, she has focused her work on pro-life issues through human interest stories and political issues regarding abortion and physician-assisted death as well as research articles and op-eds dismantling the lies of the pro-abortion, pro-death agenda. Her work has appeared in Catholic Digest, Pregnancy Help News, and a variety of other publications.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/nancy\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Woman with Down syndrome becomes first to join sorority at Murray State","description":"\"She shows me how to be myself and she embraces who she is and she loves everyone else for who they are.\" ~ Alexis's sorority sister, Tori Wood","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Woman with Down syndrome becomes first to join sorority at Murray State","og_description":"\"She shows me how to be myself and she embraces who she is and she loves everyone else for who they are.\" ~ Alexis's sorority sister, Tori Wood","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2015-10-17T15:54:38+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-10-16T16:25:39+00:00","og_image":[{"width":672,"height":372,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/alexis-sorority.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nancy Flanders","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nancy Flanders","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/"},"author":{"name":"Nancy Flanders","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef"},"headline":"Woman with Down syndrome becomes first to join sorority at Murray State","datePublished":"2015-10-17T15:54:38+00:00","dateModified":"2015-10-16T16:25:39+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/"},"wordCount":352,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"keywords":["Down syndrome","Meredith Vieira","sorority"],"articleSection":["Issues"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/","name":"Woman with Down syndrome becomes first to join sorority at Murray State","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-10-17T15:54:38+00:00","dateModified":"2015-10-16T16:25:39+00:00","description":"\"She shows me how to be myself and she embraces who she is and she loves everyone else for who they are.\" ~ Alexis's sorority sister, Tori Wood","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-becomes-first-join-sorority-murray-state\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Woman with Down syndrome becomes first to join sorority at Murray State"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, &amp; Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef","name":"Nancy Flanders","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Nancy Flanders"},"description":"Nancy Flanders is Associate Editor for Live Action News. She has 25 years of experience writing and editing. For more than a decade, she has focused her work on pro-life issues through human interest stories and political issues regarding abortion and physician-assisted death as well as research articles and op-eds dismantling the lies of the pro-abortion, pro-death agenda. Her work has appeared in Catholic Digest, Pregnancy Help News, and a variety of other publications.","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/nancy\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77277,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76957\/revisions\/77277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}