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VIDEO: Dean of Students accepts the Ice Bucket Challenge

Tattnall Square Park inducted into the "ivies" of public parks

One of the oldest city parks in America, Tattnall Square Park, was named one of the twelve Frontline Parks this summer by the City Parks Alliance. This title is awarded once every month to a park that exemplifies innovation, urban park excellence and stewardship. The Frontline Park program was created ...

What you missed this summer

  TARDIS Library Is Installed -- Funded by a grant from the Knight Neighborhood Challenge, free “Little Libraries” are placed in various locations around Macon. One such library is located on the corner of College Street and Georgia Avenue and is in the shape of the TARDIS from BBC’s “DOCTOR ...

Pi Kappa Phi fraternity suspended

After Mercer University housing staff found alcohol on the front porch of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house on Friday, Aug. 16, a judicial hearing ruled to suspend the fraternity from campus for the remainder of the semester. The fraternity house is currently closed and locked, and the organization ...

Mercer’s Panhellenic Council hosts first annual Male High Heel Race

On Oct. 16 Mercer’s Panhellenic Council hosted the High Heel Race, its first philanthropic event of the semester. Non-Greek and Greek male participants paid $5 to $10 and raced up the street near Porter Patch wearing high heels. The first person to cross the finish line won a $30 gift card to Margaritas. ...

New Admissions and Welcome Center in the works

Ground was broken on a new admissions and welcome center on the east end of the campus last week. The Emily P. Myers Admissions and Welcome Center will help attract more incoming students, and join all the admissions’ staff in one central location. There will be many amenities available to both incoming ...

Mercer's oldest alumnae dies at 114

Mercer lost its oldest alum on Sunday, April 1. Dr. Leila H. Denmark a pediatrician who practiced medicine for more than 70 years, died from natural causes at the age of 114 in Athens, Ga. She was believed to be the first female pediatrician in Georgia and the world’s oldest practicing pediatrician ...

Davis, Lovett win SGA presidential election

Despite the majority of representatives to this upcoming SGA term being male, the Presidential Election was won by a female, along with the leading Senator-at-Large and Sophomore Class President also being female. Senators Mollie Davis and Josh Lovett won the Presidential Election over former Senators ...

Female voters key in Davis/Lovett victory

After April 13, those who supported former Student Government Association Senators Dalton Turner and Justin Robinson for President and Vice President may have wondered how their candidates lost by almost two hundred votes (twenty percent of the electorate).  After receiving the election demographics ...

Mercer alum named CEO of international non-profit

International non-profit organization Feed the Children has named a Mercer alumni as its new President and CEO, following a recent board of directors’ decision. Kevin Hagan is a College of Liberal Arts graduate from 1995. He matriculated with a Bachelor’s in history, political science and German. ...

Interim music school dean chosen, search committee formed

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 ...

Davis, Lovett win SGA presidential election

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, ...

Robert Cook lectures for Southern Studies' Civil War Memory program

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 ...

Greek Week unites Greek community

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 named writer-in-residence

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 ...

Faculty and staff invited to participate in Healthy U program

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 ...

Mercer alum speaks on vast collection of artifacts

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 ...

SGA president calls for parliamentarian's resignation

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 candidates kick off month-long campaign

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 ...

Teach for America and Peace Corps visit Mercer

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 ...