{"id":8240,"date":"2025-07-22T20:54:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/?p=8240"},"modified":"2025-07-22T20:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:43:35","slug":"medill-merch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/07\/medill-merch\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhunt for Medill merch. Period."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before cherubs began, I browsed the online Northwestern Spirit Shop, but found no cute Medill merch. But the search was not over. The stores downtown had one T\u2019shirt and one sweatshirt with the same design: all-caps, sans serif font, with \u201cNorthwestern\u201d significantly larger than \u201cMedill.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I knew there was a Medill sweatshirt with lettering that looked like Times New Roman. I saw former cherubs at my high school wearing it. Their faces would light up whenever they noticed each other wearing it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The day before our cherub class picture, program director Roger Boye displayed the sweatshirt of my dreams. I immediately snagged one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the next few days, I frequently noticed the Medill logo with a period at the end. I would see it among the crowds of students walking to lectures in Fisk Hall. Boye also gifted guests with the garment. They used the logo to humorously identify us during questions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I spotted a twinning cherub on the Evanston streets, I\u2019d shout, \u201cNice sweatshirt!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Medill merch unified us. It sounds a little lofty, but it\u2019s true: We felt like young journalists who were learning to curiously pursue the truth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even when we return home (to over 20 states and four countries), the sweatshirt will always remind us of our mission and our forever community.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the cherubs searched for journalism school garb, they discovered something deeper than clothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":9919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[511],"class_list":["post-8240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experiences"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":511,"user_id":221,"is_guest":0,"slug":"oliviagu","display_name":"Olivia Gu","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa8baab68250aeec7655cba49482eb6f8f31fed78c52c6348fb0ddd81074a9fc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Gu","first_name":"Olivia","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9543,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions\/9543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8240"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}