Mercer University, local clergy and local lay leaders are working to diversify America’s most segregated hour. Michael Emerson, co-director of the Institute for Urban Research at Rice University, was the keynote speaker at this year’s “Building the Beloved Community Symposium,” an event aimed ...
Nestled in the heart of historic downtown Macon sits one of its hidden gems, Tokyo Alley. Sitting in “The Alley,” otherwise known as Mulberry Street Lane, is a restaurant that features Japanese and Thai Cuisine. Established in 1992, it won the Foodie Award for “Best Asian” in 2008 and ...
The Grand Opera House provided a perfect, if cheesy, Valentine’s Day date to couples in Macon on Feb. 13 with Neil Berg’s “130 Years of Broadway Romance.” Berg, a composer and lyricist, created the “100 Years of Broadway” concert tour, which he modified this Valentine’s Day season to ...
Hollywood awards ceremonies: To love or to hate?This is a question which changes unfailingly depending on one’s mood. The circus pomp of Hollywood is grotesque, but we still revel in seeing the faces of beloved movie characters gathered in one setting. The denotation of awards seems completely ...
It was a cold January morning when a group of Bears went where no Bears had been before, making affordable access to the high atmosphere for Mercer research a possibility. James McNichols, Spencer Penley and Natasha Finnegan, a group of juniors in Mercer’s engineering program, built and ...
The event was pitched as a place to “voice your concerns” on the organization’s Facebook page, but there weren’t many issues raised at Bear Forum because there were only three students there that aren't on SGA. “We were expecting 60,” said Senator Min Oh, the chairwoman of Public Relations ...
Looks like Oconee County is filled with smarty pants. Oconee County earned first place with the highest percentage of people over 25 years with a graduate degree (22.06 percent), according to FindTheBest's map showing the most educated counties in Georgia. As mentioned in today's "Five Things," The ...
You may be wondering about how to make an impact on campus. You might want to be the next Wozniak. You might want to rule the world, and think that Mercer’s campus is a good place to start. In any case, you’re in luck. The Student Government Association Presidential Elections Qualifications will ...
Community members gathered in Tattnall Square Park to present plans to build a fountain that will be completed later this year. “Every great public square, every great public park features moving water,” Andrew Silver, chairmen of Friends of Tattnall Square Park and professor at Mercer University, ...
The Mercer community has helped raise over $17,000 in eight days for a women's soccer player whose parents recently died. Two weeks ago, Kim Murphy's dad died from a heart attack, and her mother died of cancer three days ago, according to a GoFundMe page created by Murphy's aunt, Kimberly Cropp. "Kim ...
“I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I’m a small boy again in Bogalusa.” It is poetry like this that earned Yusef Komunyakaa the Sidney Lanier Prize for his contribution to Southern writing. Since 2012, ...
Mercer kicked off a three-year commitment to remember the Vietnam War with a Founders’ Day event meant to honor veterans and their contributions. This opportunity will allow Mercer to host two events each year until 2017, events that will honor the veterans who served in the Vietnam War. Mercer ...
Before Christmas break, a robbery took place in one of the apartments on campus. The men involved fled the scene after robbing a couple of Mercer students inside their apartment. Chief Gary Collins at Mercer Police said that “an arrest has not been made, but it is an ongoing investigation.” The ...
Picture what New York or Los Angeles might have looked like 200 years ago. Likely desolate and spare, only foundations and necessities would be in place. An awkward coming of age for a city when the place is grasping for identity and purpose. Such a place exists now but in a much stranger way. Ordos ...
Kappa Sigma went down, down the burning ring of fire Mercer’s Kappa Sigma Fraternity witnessed the lyrics to Johnny Cash’s hit “Ring of Fire” before their own eyes on Sunday afternoon. Instead of love igniting the fire though, it was a lighter. A lighter exploded with a “loud crack” and ...
A group of Mercer sophomores stood in front of the Kappa Sigma house debating on where to eat dinner when they heard a loud crack. Nineteen-year-old Austin Davis, one of the sophomores standing outside the house, said he ran inside to investigate. Once inside the house, he noticed a ring of ...
Love, desolation, anger or apathy: one of these emotions will likely be present once the calendar hits Feb. 14. Whether you’re cuddling up next to that someone special, hanging out with friends or in bed alone, you’ll probably end up in front of a screen somewhere ready to get lost in a movie. Here ...
Former All-Star Major League baseball player Darryl Strawberry shared his successes and hardships on and off the diamond during Mercer’s First Pitch Classic dinner. His son, Jordan Strawberry, plays basketball as a freshman at Mercer and sat in on his father’s speech in Hawkins Arena. The 52-year-old ...
The current dean of Mercer's college of Liberal Arts, Lake Lambert III, will leave Mercer to become the president of Hanover College in Indiana, according to The (Macon) Telegraph. “Even before I entered the presidential search process, I knew that Hanover was a special place: a strong liberal ...
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