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Letter to the Editor: Vaccine hesitancy needs to be met with empathy, not anger
By Stormy Orlin | November 11Is it the right call to belittle the unvaccinated quarter of Georgia?
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Letter from Ansley Booker: How Mercer will promote diversity and inclusion this year
By Ian Henshaw | August 26This is a letter to the editor submitted to The Cluster by Dr. Ansley Booker, director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, and Dr. Douglas Pearson, vice president and dean of students. Dear Mercer University Community, Mercer University strives to be a Community of Respect where everyone is ...
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Letter to the Editor: Faculty condemn racial violence and police brutality and commit to anti-racism
By Rose Thorne | June 23Editor's Note: The following statement was written and overwhelmingly supported by the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Mercer University. It was sent to the student body in an email and submitted to The Cluster as a Letter to the Editor June 23. The statement does not necessarily ...
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Letter to the Editor: Faculty respond to Antonio Saravia's debate points denying systemic racism
By Rose Thorne | November 21This is a letter to the editor submitted by members of the faculty at Mercer University. It does not reflect the views of The Cluster, Mercer University or faculty members not listed. Dear Mercer Community, A recent campus debate presented opposing and forceful arguments about whether ‘social justice ...
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Letter from Dean Pearson: What every student, faculty and staff should know about Mercer traditions this fall
By Douglas Pearson | August 17This is a letter to the editor submitted to The Cluster by Dr. Douglas Pearson, vice president and dean of students. Welcome, Mercerians. For those of you who are new to Mercer, I think you will find that you have selected an exceptional institution of higher education, and one that is rich in heritage ...
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Opinion: Stores closing in Macon affects the community
By Suzanna Arul | May 2On March 26, the Kroger on Pio Nono Avenue announced its closing due to profit loss. The store opened its doors in August 1994 and officially closed on April 20. For many Mercer students, this means now going a little farther to get the groceries a meal plan doesn’t cover, but what does this closing ...
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Opinion: Macon-Bibb Leaders Fail to Protect their Citizens
By Jacob Lugenbeel | April 11The Macon-Bibb County government is critically underserving the most vulnerable members of our community: those struggling with homelessness. An estimated 10,174 people struggle with homelessness in Georgia, according to the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. Nearly 500 people in Macon, ...
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Opinion: Is Spring Break Too Early?
By Sachin Khurana | April 8As several Mercer students envisioned their spring break having fun on the beach, reality made them wonder if they had started winter break. Students on group vacations at Florida beaches experienced unpleasant conditions of 60 degree temperatures in addition to constant wind gusts over 20 mph. Although ...
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Opinion: Why you shouldn’t be a doctor if you want to help people
By Blossom Onunekwu | April 4Are you majoring in biology? Do you love helping people? Are your parents immigrants? If so, you’re probably at this school to become a doctor. Becoming a doctor seems like every parent’s dream for their child. It sure was my Nigerian mother’s dream. Why would she leave her home country to give ...
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Opinion: Food on campus is the worst
By Julianna Tollett | March 26As someone who is in their second year at Mercer, I think I have completely exhausted all of the places on our campus where they serve food. I’m the type of person who tries to eat three times a day, and I also try to make sure that I’m eating something healthy every day. I grew up eating homemade ...
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Opinion: Mercer should add art on campus
By Solomon Simpson | March 13When walking around Mercer University there are lots of things to look at, but there is also a noticeable lack of color and art. On the way to class, a student will primarily see common, hazel-colored buildings lacking life. The campus fails to reflect the vibrant personalities of the students and ...
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Opinion: Stop sending good vibes and start taking action
By Julianna Tollett | March 13On Feb. 14, 17 lives were lost at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. At 2:19 p.m., Nikolas Cruz walked into his old high school with an AR-15 style rifle and killed 17 of his former classmates and teachers. A 19-year-old was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder, according to Sun Sentinel, ...
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Opinion: How Mercer can grow its medical school
By Ben Hitchcock | March 10There are a total of five medical schools in Georgia with enrollments ranging from 200 to nearly 1,000 students. Each one has medical care facilities including hospitals, clinics, primary care, sports medicine and psychiatric care. The largest and most famous of these are all staffed by Emory University’s ...
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Opinion: Why you should care about DACA
By Devyn Mode | March 9Democrats’ recent unsuccessful attempts to take action on the status of former Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients proves the safety of those individuals is not a priority in the House, but it should be for you. DACA was enacted by the Obama Administration in 2012. It allows ...
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Opinion: Being sick in college sucks
By Kate Eckrote | February 12I would consider myself a fairly healthy person. I often stay up until 3 a.m. watching health documentaries on Netflix. I always skip the whipped cream on my tall, double shot, extra drizzle, caramel Frappuccino. And I exercise regularly in the sense that I sometimes take the stairs. Therefore, ...
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Opinion: Safety for Tattnall Square Center for the Arts
By Julianna Tollett | February 12Everybody on Mercer’s campus, and even off campus, seems to have heard about the armed robbery that took place in Tattnall Square Park a few weeks ago. The incident occurred only a few days after shots were fired in Mercer Village at a group of students and an alumni. The students on campus were in ...
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Opinion: Jay Sekulow should be allowed to speak at Founder’s Day
By David Stokes III | February 6Let me begin by stating that I find the political philosophy of Jay Sekulow repugnant, and his disdain for the LGBT community, Muslims and undocumented immigrants is directly contrary to my values as a liberal. I strongly believe that all people, regardless of their race, religion, sexual orientation, ...
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Opinion: SGA senator speaks out against Sekulow
By Joseph Muldrew | February 6What does it mean to be a Mercerian? President William Underwood and Student Government Association (SGA) President Olivia Buckner have clearly answered my question when they chose to lionize Jay Sekulow, a Mercer alumni and lawyer for President Trump, as our Founder’s Day speaker. In Buckner’s ...
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Opinion: The college football system is a broken system
By Connor Cable | January 31Another year, another college football championship with an SEC team on top of the podium. I am not here to discuss the merits of SEC football because we all know they are good. The problem lies in the fact that this year, there were two SEC teams in the four-team college football playoff, and they ...
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Opinion: YouTube star showcases suicide
By Lisa Meskimen | January 27At the beginning of 2018, the popular YouTuber Logan Paul posted a video blog (vlog) of himself encountering a dead body in Japan’s Aokigahara forest, also known as the Suicide Forest. Paul, with over 15 million subscribers to his name, is a 22-year-old man whose YouTube channel description reads, ...
