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Mercer's Got Talent! Photo Gallery

Mercer's Got Talent Video Highlights

After a year-long hiatus, Mercer's Got Talent came back with full vengeance. This year's competition, featured speed painting, rapping and many talent singers. The prizes ranged from a paid semester of rent for The Lofts at Mercer Village, to a year of free tacos at Margaritas. Check out these video ...

Knight Cities Challenge offers way to tighten the scope of QEP projects

The Visionary Student Panels held last week as a part of Mercer's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) were a way of showcasing student ideas for improving the local and global community. Until Oct. 27, another platform is offering a similar opportunity to Mercer students and community members alike. The ...

Lip Sync 2015 Video Highlights

The Cheetah Girls prowled Willingham Hall and heroes and villains duked it out onstage for Mercer's Disney-themed Lip Sync Competition. Both of Willingham's bottom and top floor were jammed-packed with Disney fanatics eager to relive some of their favorite tunes.   Greek Organizations: [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwoHFBVWeYA[/embed] [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiH4bh13gVg[/embed] [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6YIihQndEo[/embed] [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csKD7nYKM3U[/embed]   Student ...

Homecoming Lip Sync, Pumpkin Carving and Banner competition winners

The second night of Homecoming festivities included a lip sync competition where organizations dueled it out with Disney-inspired performances. Here are the results from tonight: Lip Sync Greek Organization Winners: Alpha Delta Pi/Lambda Chi Alpha Alpha Gamma Delta/ Kappa Sigma Phi Delta Theta/ ...

Pumpkin Carving Photo Gallery

Mercer Homecoming through Social Media

Bear Grants Senate sets precedents for funding

[infographic align="right"] [/infographic] Projectors. Printers. Laser tag trips. Sound boards. Organizations on campus need a wide variety of things to function, and they don’t always have the funds to cover them. Every year, Mercer’s SGA is allocated a certain amount of money, known as Bear ...

Do not Cross: Update on Crime and Safety at Mercer

On Oct. 1 — the last day allowed by federal law — Mercer University Police posted their annual Crime Awareness and Campus Security report to their website in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. The document includes information ...

A look into the Peace Corps: Christie Hutchinson's tale

“I’ll bike into some Internet service tomorrow afternoon.” Christie Hutchison’s response to a request to be interviewed embodied the limited access to resources she experiences every day. Hutchison, a 2015  Mercer University graduate who majored in environmental engineering and minored in ...

From Bear to Crown: Betty Cantrell wins Miss America

Mercer University’s Townsend School of Music had its shining moment on an unlikely national platform — the stage of the 95th Miss America Pageant Competition. Mercer music student Betty Cantrell competed in front of an estimated 7.1 million viewers, according to Nielson Twitter TV Ratings. Some ...

Throwback Thursday: Mercer named one of the top 10 party schools

Mercer University stands tall and proud as a school of honor and respect in the south, but some scandalous news from 1987 begs to differ. Playboy Magazine ranked Mercer ninth out of the 10 top party schools in the nation in 1987 and had some alleged Mercer students star in their October issue. Although ...

“Symphonic Tricks and Orchestral Treats” to bring ghoulish fun to the Grand Opera House

The Macon Symphony Orchestra’s next haunt of the Grand Opera House, “Symphonic Tricks and Orchestral Treats,” will take place Saturday, Oct. 24. This Halloween-themed concert will feature pieces, such as excerpts from Danny Elfman’s “Nightmare Before Christmas” and Michael Jackson’s ...

Introducing Mpho Molapo

From the way she acts, you'd never guess Mpho Molapo was a foreigner from South Africa. Her confidence in everything from arguing Homer in class to ordering her drink in the long Einsteins line doesn't seem indicative of someone who is still learning American culture. But perhaps that’s the way ...

Mercer to host chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honor society

One of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honor societies will make its home at Mercer, according to a letter from President Underwood. This afternoon, during Phi Beta Kappa's 44th Triennial Council, delegates found that Mercer qualified to host the honor society on its campus. This means that ...

Bear Grants Senate Updates

Bear Grants Senate is tonight: here are your real-time updates. [infographic align="right"]#SGABearGrants Tweets// [/infographic] According to SGA President Harrison, the goal is to stretch the Bear Grant money as far as possible, in order to make the widest impact on Mercer's campus. The money for ...

Dirt Farmers Marketplace brings fresh, local fare to Macon

Over two years ago, Brendan Rowley became a customer of TheDirtFarmers.com, a local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) service founded by one of his friends. The subscription service offers customizable boxes filled with seasonal produce, which are delivered to customers throughout Macon on a bi-weekly ...

Fresh off the Docket

Bear Forum About 15 students attended tonight's Bear Forum with SGA and they raised a variety of concerns, including: Internet speed and bandwidth Requests for more Bear Card tappers outside of Residence Halls Potential of a feature in the Mercer Mobile App that would allow you to see which study ...

Mercer tries to increase voter participation

Driving up to the polling station in Dublin, Georgia on a Friday afternoon, the line stretched for a three-hour wait to vote in the 2012 presidential election. Joey Wozniak, a freshman at Mercer University at the time, decided along with his father that it was not worth the wait. At this time, Wozniak ...