“In the middle of all that darkness there was one light,” Craig McMahan said, looking out from the stage of Willingham auditorium at Mercer’s annual Christmas Tree Lighting. The event was presented by the Heritage Life Committee on Dec. 8 and featured guest speakers and songs from Mercer Singers.
Several Mercer students gathered in the Connell Student Center breezeway on Nov. 30 to spread an important message: there are consequences to e-waste.
According to the AP, “an increasing number of high school students failed to meet any of the subject-area benchmarks set by the ACT — showing a decline in preparedness for college-level coursework."
The Public Anthropology and Activism class, taught by Natalie Bourdon, Ph.D, culminates in a final project that connects visual art with an activist message.
After 102 years of print publication, The Cluster will become digital-only starting in 2023. The Dec. 6 issue will be the final print edition.
As people pack away their pumpkins and bring out their Christmas trees, the annual approach of “cuffing season” means dating app usage is at an all-time high.
“I was talking about this with my students in class one day,” Fontenot said. “They asked, ‘Well, what happened to your revolution?’ I said, 'You're part of it.' I'm turning out revolutionaries. So this project is part of my revolution.”
At 6 p.m. on Nov. 17, Mercer’s Resident Hall Association, RHA, held their annual town hall meeting in Stetson Hall.
For 15 years, Macon Area Habitat for Humanity (MAHFH) has organized the Light More Homes fundraiser in order to combat substandard housing.
“People aren’t buying it because it is new, people are buying it because they want it,” Drash said.
A line of people gathered under the glimmering lights of the Grand Opera House in Macon on Oct. 17 to see Mercer students, Mercer alumni and members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra perform in the Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra.
The court was composed of eight members who were voted on by the student body after their interviews with Mercer staff members.
The court's queen and king will be crowned at Saturday's Homecoming football game against Furman University during halftime.
QuadWorks continued its tradition of festivities leading up to Homecoming weekend that culminated in the annual lip sync competition Friday night in a Willingham Auditorium packed to the brim.
"I think there are a lot of issues right now that will affect our future, and I think it’s important to have a say in the decisions on those issues,” Haven Estabrook '26 said.
Voting takes place Wednesday on MyCourseEval via Canvas.
Every year Mercer students make a Pilgrimage to Penfield. However, there were a few changes made to the experience in order to acknowledge and more fully teach students about Mercer's complex history.
“This album feels like a family and how we made it was like a family,” said Moss.
Mercer University will host the Second Edition Gothic Festival this spooky season Oct. 26-29.
The idea was at first mentioned jokingly. No one thought it would take flight in the future.
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