Former cheerleader and newbie to the color guard scene, Thomas Patton, junior, is the second male student to join the team at Mercer University, ever. Although Patton was a member of the cheerleading team during his first two years of college, he had never before been a member of a colorguard. “I ...
Mercer’s Entrepreneurship Engineering Education Program (MEEEP) is aiming to bring students together this year through collaborations across multiple fields. Junior and President of MEEEP Ben Kasson recognizes the lack of discussion occurring among students on campus. “We have so many groups all ...
Julia Armstrong, a former resident of Birmingham and an associate professor of English at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg, has many ties to the Civil Rights movement. On Monday, Sept. 14 she was on campus to give a lecture for her upcoming fifth book titled, “History That’s Buried ...
At the SGA meeting on Monday, Sept. 14, student representatives from three new campus organizations stood up and made the case to receive official recognition from SGA. These students represented CURE Mercer, the Student Managed Investment Fund and a chapter of the National Press Photographers Association. ...
Friday marked a momentous day for the city of Macon as hundreds of students from Mercer University, Wesleyan College and Middle Georgia State University flocked to the first ever Mac Party. Designed to introduce new students to the city of Macon, the Mac Party hosted an array of local businesses, free ...
Mercer students who attended the study abroad activities were immersed in the beginning steps of what it takes to prepare for their trip across the world. This year the week-long Study Abroad Fair consisted of many events catering to students seeking to become or already involved with international ...
Pilgrimage to Penfield has been defined for the past several years by its mystery. Bekah Fulton, a junior chairwoman of SGA’s Heritage Life committee, wants to get rid of the enigma surrounding this autumnal event. “By people participating, they help break the [enigma] of what is the mysterious ...
Flying brooms might soon be a common sight on Mercer’s campus. “There are plans in the making for a Quidditch Club and Quidditch Team here at Mercer,” said Amy Tureen, current librarian and future administrative coach of the planned Quidditch group. “For 2015-2016, we will play with friends ...
Mercer University, the College Hill Alliance and Macon-Bibb County announced Tuesday that Chen's Wok, Papa John's Pizza, and (potentially) Momma Goldberg's Deli will be coming to Mercer Landing, the new development across Mercer University Drive. Additional dining options will be announced at a later ...
What’s the skinny? The Egyptian government is continuing its movement to create a 1km buffer zone in the Gaza Strip. Reaching its two-year anniversary as of July, the operation has been an effort to restrict opposition jihadist groups from transferring goods through underground tunnels within the ...
PARKING Student Government Association (SGA) President Austin Harrison met with President Underwood very recently, and in that meeting, they discussed parking. President Underwood told Harrison that he wanted students to know that 120 parking spots should be coming online next semester. On the ...
MerServe aims to heighten community involvement among students this year by hosting monthly Service Saturdays, which will place student volunteers in contact with local non-profits in need of aid. The first Service Saturday is to be held Sept. 26 and will take place between 8:30 a.m. and noon. Students ...
Every fall, five freshman join the SGA senate table with a plan to leave their mark on Mercer. This year's class president is Alexandra Kirschbaum, the only girl of the freshman senator set. She was class president for three years in high school and said that she is going to work hard to reach out ...
The next time Betty Cantrell steps onto Mercer's campus, she'll be wearing a new crown. The Warner Robin's native beat out 51 contestants on the nationally televised pageant from Atlantic City. Cantrell is the second "Miss Georgia" to garner the title. The 21-year-old wowed the judges during the ...
This band of brothers isn’t crossing a hail of bullets like the Scouts and Raiders on the sands of Salerno. But the Alpha Beta and Lambda Xi chapters of Kappa Sigma are on a mission of their own. In mile segments, the men will run a football from Milledgeville to Five Star Stadium in Macon for the ...
If you look out at the night sky from Mercer’s campus, you may be able to see some of the major constellations among a few of the brightest stars. But the naked eye can only see so far. Even with a telescope, the stars can be difficult to see and track in Macon due to light pollution. Mercer’s ...
A new student-run arts program launched on Aug. 31 seeking to bring the joy of creative expression to residents young and old of the Tindall Heights public housing project. One of the volunteers for the program is Gabrielle Carter, a sophomore nursing major at Mercer with a talent for art. She works ...
[embed]https://youtu.be/aXK4q0Fjpvs[/embed] Around the year 1914 a magnificent fountain was constructed in Macon, Georgia. It stood triumphant and tall as an icon for Macon and its community members, but the Great Depression took its toll. The fountain was turned off in 1934. For years the fountain ...
Now that the construction is cleared away and the structures are complete, the Lofts at College Hill on Hardeman Avenue are focusing on building community through events to get residents more acquainted with downtown, the new living space, and each other. For example, on Aug. 25 the Lofts at College ...
The cones are gone. The new asphalt is smooth. Dark. A stretch of Mercer University Drive was under construction this summer as part of the Second Street Corridor project, a Macon-Bibb initiative that is working to make it easier to come downtown. The first few legs of that process have been completed. ...
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