David Keith, director of graduate studies and associate professor of the Townsend-McAfee Institute for Church Music will become the interim, or rather a temporary, dean for current Dean John H. Dickson on July 1. Dean Dickson is leaving Mercer University after serving for four years to accept the position ...
Senators Davis and Lovett won this year's SGA presidential election. Davis and Lovett picked up 60% of the vote to Turner and Robinson's 40% from a total number of 832 votes. Despite the majority of representatives to this upcoming SGA term being male, the Presidential Election was won by a female, ...
On Monday, April 2 the Southern Studies Program on Civil War Memory featured a lecture by author Robert Cook, from the University of Sussex, in the Medical School Auditorium. The author of Troubled Commemoration hosted a lecture entitled Civil War Centennial: Historical Commemoration in the Age of Civil ...
Mercer University hosted its annual Greek week throughout the week of March 26. Every year, Order of Omega organizes Greek week and sets up a number of events that all Greek organizations can participate in. Order of Omega is a national Greek leadership honor society. It recognizes students who have ...
Bestselling author Bret Lott is this year’s writer-in-residence for the Ferrol A. Sams, Jr., Distinguished Chair of English program. This semester he will be holding classes with Mercer’s creative writing students, helping them hone their craft along their own writing journeys. A professor at the ...
The faculty and staff at Mercer University have the opportunity to take part in a Healthy U program. The Healthy U program is an incentive, point based program in which the employees are rewarded with points that are kept up through the course of the year. The employees are able to pick between two ...
On April 3, scholar and Mercer alumnus Dr. Y. Lynn Holmes came to talk in conversation about his extensive collection of ancient artifacts from the Holy Land. This talk marked the opening of another rotation of the Holmes Holy Land Ancient Artifact Collection. This exhibit of artifacts is titled, “Sex ...
Student Government Association Parliamentarian, Gene Mitchell, was asked to resign from his appointed position by SGA president Jordan Locke on April 2. The resignation was a result of Mitchell’s recent opinion article published in The Cluster on March 28. Mitchell’s article expressed his frustration ...
SGA kicked off what will be a month-long campaign with qualifications last Monday. Sophomores Mollie Davis and Dalton Turner announced their candidacies for SGA president, and students also signed up to run for class offices and Senator at Large. The candidates’ presence on campus has increased along ...
Regional recruiters from the government-sponsored programs Teach for America and the Peace Corps visited Mercer’s campus last week to encourage students to apply. Both programs offer adventurous opportunities to students just out of college, but those interested are encouraged to begin the application ...
While most students enjoyed a relaxing spring break at home or at the beach, a group of eight students opted to stay on campus during break in order to perform service projects around Macon. This “Alternative Spring Break” was Garret McDowell’s senior service project, and for four days his group ...
Mercer University hosted its annual leadership conference titled Leadership MU throughout March 19–21. Leadership MU is a leadership conference that was organized by Campus Life and the Division of Student Affairs in order to provide students with an opportunity to learn about various topics surrounding ...
Last month a video went viral that forced the world into action; Kony 2012 completely grasped the world’s view of an event taking place in Uganda as well as East and Central Africa. This video began with a cry to stop Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRS) once and for all. The film ...
On Saturday March 17, Mercer’s Panhellenic woman volunteered to work at the Kids CherryDazzle held in downtown Macon from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Kids CherryDazzle is an annual event that is held on the first weekend of the Cherry Blossom Festival. All children are welcome to attend the festival and ...
The only person that should be thankful the presidential election period has been extended is Sophomore Senator Dalton Turner. Senator Turner was perceived undoubtedly as the hands on favorite to win the SGA presidential race, but someone forgot to tell fellow Sophomore Senator Mollie Davis that. ...
Republican Party presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich visited Macon on Thursday, March 1 as a part of his Georgia campaign. The former Speaker of the House appeared at the Hephzibah Ministries gym, delivering a 40-minute speech touching on the importance of American energy independence, foreign policy, ...
The incoming freshmen class at Mercer University will be expected to live on campus for three years of their college career. Currently, students are required to live on campus for their first two years and can choose whether they will continue to live on campus for their last two years at Mercer. Jeff ...
Tim Regan-Porter, president and CEO of Decatur, Ga.-based Paste Media Group, was named the first director of Mercer University’s Center for Collaborative Journalism on Feb. 14. His appointment started Mar. 1. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in December awarded $4.6 million in grants to ...
The Mercer Singers are hosting the first ever “Biggest Loser” on Mercer’s Campus. The idea for a way to help music students become healthy has been a long time concern of Dr. Stanley Robert, The Arthur Lowndes Rich Professor of Choral Conducting and Associate Dean of the Townsend School of Music. “I’ve ...
The percentage of students joining Greek organizations at Mercer University has declined in recent years. Compared to other universities similar to Mercer’s size and structure, Mercer is trailing behind with only 24 percent of their total 2,240 undergraduate students belonging to a fraternity or sorority, ...
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