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Josie Nordman transplant fund passes $50K By ALLY MUTNICK
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After almost three months of fundraising, Communication sophomore Josie Nordman’s lung transplant fund has reached about $50,000. Northwestern students added their latest donation Sunday with a 5K run at the Lakefill. The NU community has rallied behind Nordman, who suffers from cystic fibrosis. Her worsening condition left her with just 16 percent lung function as she waits for transplant lungs to become available. Nordman and her family will have to pay up to $75,000 of the $750,000 procedure. “I’ve lost track of everything going on at this point,” said Nicolle Nordman, Josie’s mother. “It continues to amaze me. Definitely the bulk of everything raised at this point has come from Northwestern.” About 70 people ran in the 5K, which raised about $350. Josie Nordman and her mother came out for the event, which was sponsored by the Phi Delta Theta fraternity Delta Gamma women’s fraternity. The fund is only $25,000 away from covering the family’s maximum cost of Josie Nordman’s life-saving double lung transplant, which she said could happen at any time. Nordman was moved up the transplant list last month, and her mother said that Josie will likely receive the next available lungs that match her height and
blood type. Though her condition is declining, Josie Nordman is still in Evanston and not at home in Homewood, Ill., which is about an hour away. She takes classes two days a week, produces a play set to open in late May and remains active in Chi Omega sorority. A member of the NU Equestrian Team, Josie Nordman recently rode her horse Loki It continues for the first time to amaze me. in months — he carried her Definitely oxygen on his the bulk of saddle. But walking everything and breathing raised at this are still difficult, point has and she has to wear oxygen come from full time. Northwestern. “I’m beyond Nicolle Nordman, ready for this to be done,” Josie mother of Josie Nordman said. Nordman “The call could come at anytime.” The procedure typically requires about three months of home recovery. Remaining healthy in the first year is crucial. The transplant will only cure Josie Nordman’s lungs, but she said it will allow her to return to performing, singing and riding. She hopes to be back on her horse
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SUSTAINED SUPPORT Supporters cheer as a runner crosses the finish line at the 5K to benefit Josie Nordman, a Communication sophomore with cystic fibrosis. Her fund recently reached about $50,000 in donations.
six months after surgery. More than 30 student groups have planned fundraisers during Winter and Spring quarters. Her Indiegogo online fundraising account has $43,398, and additional donations are in the Josie Nordman
Lung Transplant Fund. Nicolle Nordman said NU support has not dwindled since students first heard of her daughter’s transplant in January. “It’s very important that these events keep happening,” said Corey Moss, a
friend of Josie Nordman who planned the 5K. “Enough is never really enough.” Moss, a Communication senior, met Josie Nordman when they worked » See JOSIE, page 8
Media summit talks storytelling Netsch memorial
recalls humor, wit
By PATRICK SVITEK
daily senior staffer @PatrickSvitek
By LAUREN CARUBA Two wunderkinds of the media industry on Saturday offered an optimistic outlook for journalism’s future and where Medill students fit into that puzzle. “It’s scary, it’s uncertain, you may not make the money you want to make right off the bat,” said Dan Fletcher (Medill ‘09), former Facebook managing editor. “But in terms of opportunity for things for you to do The goal and the ways nowadays isn’t for you to implement neccessarily to your ideas get to The New — I really do mean this York Times. — I doubt The goal should there’s a better time.” be to get an Fletcher audience ... and Brian Stelter, Brian Stelter, a media journalist reporter for The New York Times, book-ended the first day of Media Rewired, the inaugural conference on online journalism organized by the Medill Undergraduate Student Advisory Council. The selfbilled “digital storytelling summit” featured seven workshops in addition to the two speakers Saturday and a showcase of Adobe’s latest software for Web developers Sunday. More than 400 tickets were reserved for the weekend’s events, and dozens of Medill students and faculty members filled the McCormick Tribune
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MEDIA MAVEN Brian Stelter of The New York Times speaks at the firstever Media Rewired conference Saturday.
Center Forum for Stelter’s and Fletcher’s speeches. MUSAC executive co-chair Kimberly Lee said the organization came up with the idea for the conference because it was “concerned about media’s changing landscape” and wanted to present some viewpoints that may not surface in a traditional classroom setting. Stelter, who joined The Times in 2007 after editing a must-read blog for television news insiders, described the current state of journalism as a “choose-your-own-adventure model” in which aspiring reporters have more outlets than ever. “The goal nowadays isn’t necessarily to get to The New York Times,” Stelter said. “The goal should be to get an audience some way, somehow.” After his talk, Stelter told The Daily journalism schools like Medill still matter, even as more reporters seek less conventional methods of promoting their content and themselves. “People say it’s irrelevant, but I
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don’t think it is,” Stelter said. “I think journalism school can be and maybe should be a four-year laboratory for the skills of journalism and for the future services and products of journalism — to come up with those products, to come up with those personal, professional brands.” Fletcher was also vocal about more entrepreneurship among young journalists, attributing his highprofile stints spearheading social media policy at Time magazine and Bloomberg News to being “pretty good at sticking my hand up and trying new things.” He left Facebook this month to work on his own projects, a move he described as reflective of the media industry’s rapid pace of development. “The Internet is changing everything journalism is, and we need to react to it,” Fletcher said. Medill junior Tyler Fisher, who taught a workshop about coding » See MEDIA, page 8
CHICAGO — Illinois’ luminaries on Saturday remembered Northwestern Law Prof. Dawn Clark Netsch (Weinberg ‘48, Law ‘52) as a brilliant pioneer who broke almost every glass ceiling in state politics. “She was always the smartest person in the room … and a person of absolute, unshakeable integrity,” U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said during a funeral service at the School of Law’s Thorne Auditorium in Chicago. Netsch was the first woman to hold statewide office in Illinois as the state comptroller, the state’s first female
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LEGACY Mourners recalled Law Prof. Dawn Clark Netsch’s many achievements at her memorial.
candidate for governor from a major political party and the first female faculty member of Northwestern’s School of Law. When she graduated at the top of law school’s class of 1952, she was its only female student. Netsch passed away March 5 after battling with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. She was 86. More than 600 people nodded along as eight speakers recalled Netsch’s quirks, snappy comebacks and trademark stubbornness. “It was that great outsized passion that she shared with all of us and that gives us that standard of what we can do, what we can accomplish,” Illinois Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon said. Illinois Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) read a letter from someone he said “couldn’t be here but wanted to be” — President Barack Obama. “Dawn refused to accept gender as an obstacle to success,” Cullerton read from Obama’s letter. “Breaking barrier after barrier in law, academia and public service, she became an extraordinary trailblazer for women and girls.” Political prowess aside, many speakers also praised Netsch for her self-deprecating humor and recreational passions, including the Chicago White Sox, liverwurst and champagne. The funeral honored Netsch’s love of Chicago’s arts scene with a musical interlude performed by the Lyric Opera of Chicago, which she attended regularly with her husbands of 45 years, architect Walter Netsch. Even as Netsch’s heath declined, her family said she couldn’t be stopped from answering the phone or door. Andrew » See NETSCH, page 8
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