If you’re a rising senior, which is a fourth-year student or above, you may have received an email last month stating that you wouldn’t be guaranteed on-campus housing for the next academic year, but Jeff Takac, the director of housing at Mercer University, said this is normal. Takac said the email ...
Mercer has a new student organization this semester called Students Supporting Israel. The club was started by Mercer junior Shanna Mattson, who also serves as the club president. “The purpose of it is to just have a space for students. It was started by students for students,” Mattson said. “And ...
There’s a culture and history surrounding Capricorn Records, and now there’s Lofts surrounding it too. But, on the inside of that worn building, a revitalization is being planned. In 2015, Mercer partnered with NewTown Macon to begin the transformation of the original Capricorn studio. The Lofts ...
If you’re a Mercer student, there’s a good chance you’ve submitted a maintenance request for something broken or not working in your dorm room before. Even if you haven’t made a request, you’ve probably had someone from maintenance come to do routine checkups such as checking light bulbs or ...
With about 4,700 currently enrolled undergraduate students at Mercer University, on-campus housing is nearing a full capacity between the different residence halls and lofts. “We are full. We’re real full,” said Jeff Takac, the Director of Housing at Mercer University. “We’re probably 97 ...
The ability to find parking spaces on campus has been an issue for both commuters and on-campus residents at Mercer for many years, and these complaints have grown since the increase in the student population in the past five years. Many students have stated their frustration in finding a parking space ...
While the idea for the program arose in fall of 2015, the Patienthood Internship Program was not founded until last year, and the program currently has 15 undergraduate pre-medical, pre-physician assistant and pre-nursing students enrolled.The program is meant to give undergraduate pre-medical students ...
Clay Young graduated from Mercer in 2016 after studying music education. Now he’s back for a master’s degree in choral conducting with aspirations in singing and opera. Young is originally from Dublin, Georgia and has been interested in music since childhood. He got his start when he was around ...
The Director of Percussion Studies at Mercer University, Marcus Reddick, will be hosting and performing a faculty percussion recital on April 21 in Fickling Hall. Reddick said he used time as a theme for the recital. “This concert is going to be like a passage of time,” Reddick said. “There's ...
Mercer University’s Townsend School of Music will host a Jazz Combo concert on Tuesday, April 18. The concert will be held in Fickling Hall at 7:30 p.m. Monty Cole, director of jazz studies at Mercer, said that the Jazz Combo concert will include pieces such as “On Green Dolphin Street,” “Ecaroh” ...
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