{"id":7666,"date":"2025-07-22T20:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/?p=7666"},"modified":"2025-07-22T20:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:04:23","slug":"spit-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/07\/spit-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Troublemaking cherubs take on the Spit List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At 6 a.m. sharp on a Sunday, Maia Weissman of Glenview, Illinois, joined a group of Cherubs in the lobby of Jones Hall. Although it was sunny out, she carried an umbrella \u2014 as her community and academic associates instructed \u2014 and prepared for the unknown activity awaiting her. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weissman was one of 20 cherubs on the Spit List that week for infractions such as losing a key card, being late to class and jaywalking. She wound up on the list after locking her key card in her room.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI was very upset, because I am not a very organized person. I knew this was going to happen to me, and I tried to do everything I could to always keep it on me,\u201d Weissman said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Satvika Ramanathan of Ann Arbor, Michigan, was also spitlisted after misplacing her key card. That Sunday at 6 a.m., she and the other cherubs on the Spit List walked to a local playground, holding hands and umbrellas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c(The CAAs) were like, \u2018go play in silence on the playground for the rest of the hour,\u2019\u201d Ramanathan said. \u201cThen suddenly, \u2018Karma\u2019 by JoJo Siwa starts blasting. We listened to that more times than I\u2019ve ever listened to that song in my life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After getting locked out of her room, Shiori Chen of San Carlos, California, found herself on the Spit List. She encourages future Cherubs to stay organized to avoid seeing their name on the list.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGo in with an open mind,\u201d Chen said. \u201cBut be sure to be prepared for whatever absurd activity they have you do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherub rule-breakers share their Spit List experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":8077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[458],"class_list":["post-7666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":458,"user_id":262,"is_guest":0,"slug":"elanasnyder","display_name":"Elana Snyder","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b20dcebdcfb618fc8191a678a38c65ff32bc261da818bfd5c197a3270c0040ac?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Snyder","first_name":"Elana","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9800,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666\/revisions\/9800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7666"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=7666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}