{"id":9513,"date":"2026-03-02T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=9513"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:47:12","slug":"alpha-omicron-pi-hosts-shop-out-arthritis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/03\/02\/alpha-omicron-pi-hosts-shop-out-arthritis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Omicron Pi hosts Shop Out Arthritis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Alpha Omicron Pi is fighting against arthritis one piece of clothing at a time thanks to its annual Shop Out Arthritis event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event was part of the sorority&#8217;s larger philanthropy week that raises awareness and money for a cause of the sorority&#8217;s choosing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;All the sororities will donate their clothes and pick a price,&#8221; said Juliette Green, Director of Philanthropy for \u0391OII. &#8220;If someone buys something that&#8217;s ten dollars, they&#8217;ll get five dollars and we get five dollars so that all proceeds go to the juvenile arthritis foundation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We have a lot of different types of clothes,&#8221; said Hannah Cox, a sister of AOII. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of athletic clothes and then there&#8217;s formal clothes and recruitment as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/02\/23\/freshman-forum-5k-aims-to-help-the-american-heart-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>HELPING HANDS: Freshman Forum 5K aims to help the American Heart Association<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some sisters, Juvenile Arthritis is an issue that hits close to home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My sister actually has juvenile arthritis, so this cause means a lot to me,&#8221; explained Cox. &#8220;Juvenile arthritis foundation is a really great cause to give to, and who doesn&#8217;t like to shop? It&#8217;s a great way to get everybody involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I think it impacted me more when I met people my own age that had arthritis and how that affected them and their childhood growing up,&#8221; said Maddie Osborne, President of AOII.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about AOII&#8217;s events, follow its Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aoiitroy\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a> The next philanthropy week that&#8217;s happening on campus is for Alpha Delta Pi next week. For more updates from the Panhellenic Council, you can visit their Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/troypanhellenic\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Alpha Omicron Pi is fighting against arthritis one piece of clothing at a time thanks to its annual Shop Out Arthritis event.<\/p>\n<p>The event was part of the sorority&#8217;s larger philanthropy week that raises awareness and money for a cause of the sorority&#8217;s choosing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the sororities will donate their clothes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/03\/02\/alpha-omicron-pi-hosts-shop-out-arthritis-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":9554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2920,2922,2919,2921],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-9513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-troy-university-alpha-omicron-pi","tag-troy-university-aoi-philanthropy-week","tag-troy-university-aoii","tag-troy-university-shop-out-arthritis","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9553,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions\/9553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9513"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=9513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}