African Student Association hosts Miss ASA pageant
The African Student Association hosted its inaugural Miss ASA pageant at 6:30 p.m. Sunday evening in Newton Chapel, launching what organizers hope will become an annual campus tradition.
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The African Student Association hosted its inaugural Miss ASA pageant at 6:30 p.m. Sunday evening in Newton Chapel, launching what organizers hope will become an annual campus tradition.
A week before his first Out of the Darkness Campus Walk, Will Spurlock ‘26 lost his brother to suicide. Three years later, he stood in front of a record-breaking crowd on Cruz Plaza to help raise more than $13,000 for suicide prevention.
Professional, student and "shadetree" racers raced down Magnolia Street at the annual Magnolia Soap Box Derby about a mile from campus Saturday, April 11.
The Theta Alpha Kappa Religion honor society and Mercer University religion department hosted a "Casting of Christ" movie series that depicts different representations of Jesus Christ in media leading up to Good Friday.
Etienne Musonera, a professor of marketing at the Stetson-Hatcher School of Business at the Atlanta campus, addressed students and faculty alike at Kwibuka 32, the ceremony marking the 32nd anniversary of the 1994 Genocide of the Tutsi, on April 1.
Audience members time traveled through the decades of fashion at the third annual MU Runway fashion show on Thursday, April 2 in Penfield Hall.
Josemarria Gutierrez '26 has been around a lot of golf. Born in Mexico City, he started his career at Missouri Baptist University, a school of just less than 6,000 students, then transferred to Barton College, a Division II school in North Carolina for two years.
A second set of the "Understanding Now" teach-in lectures took place in Willet Auditorium on Friday, March 27. Unlike the previous set of lectures, this Friday only had two sessions.
The history of the Mercer Bear is a long, confusing, rocky path of identity. From black bears to brown bears to white-black bears and black-brown bears, Mercer has yet to determine its own species.
Filipino-American activist Alma Bowman paused to take a breath 10 minutes into her speech about her 40-month stay in the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga., less than two hours south of Mercer's campus.
Macon residents gathered at Rosa Parks Square to protest the Trump administration on March 28, 2026. The organizers, Macon Rising, Macon Trouble and the League of Women voters hosted speakers and led the crowd in chants that echoed across in the roughly 3,000 other “No Kings” protests nationwide Saturday.
Ten finalists are waiting for the results of the Mercer Innovation Center's annual Next Big Idea competition. The announcement will take place Wednesday, April 1 in the Mercer Innovation Center from 5-8 p.m.
Mercer's Model Arab League delegation competed at the National University Model Arab League conference in Maryland, March 26-29, after winning several awards at the Southeast Regional Model Arab League conference at Converse University in South Carolina March 13-15.
Mercer Theatre debuted an original play, “Dragon’s Dream: Circanium” Saturday evening as it opened with what director Scot Mann called a “New Orleans-styled” procession through Mercer Village and into the historic quad.
Women’s lacrosse will begin conference play against High Point University today at Five Star Stadium at 4 p.m. The Bears are 1-3 at home and 2-3 on the road this season after facing several nationally ranked opponents in non-conference play.
Men's lacrosse enters Atlantic Sun Conference play with a 4-4 overall record this Saturday against Queens University in Charlotte, N.C. following a balanced non-conference schedule that included three early wins and four losses against higher-level competition. The Bears are 3-1 at home and 1-3 on the road so far this season, and their most recent game, on March 14, was a hard-fought 12-11 victory over St. John’s University.
Mercer is set to sign the documentation that officially sanctions the Connell Student Center for demolition on Friday, April 3. The building will be replaced by a large orange parking deck and a 100-foot tall bear mural. Both constructions will begin promptly over the summer.
Colin Whitworth presented research they did on the intersection of queer and Southern identities through performance and narrative on March 18 in Godsey Science Center. Whitworth specifically discussed their own regional identity as a member of the LBGTQ community born, raised and currently living in the South.
Georgia voters have until April 20 to register for the general primary elections, with early voting set to run from April 27 to May 15, leading up to primary election day on May 19.
The Mercer cheer team has been raising money to fund a trip to the 2026 National Cheer Association & National Dance Alliance College Nationals set to run April 8-11 in Daytona Beach, Fla. Head Coach Nicole Scott estimated the total cost to be $46,000.