Excitement filled Cruz Plaza on Friday, Sept. 11, as Mercer University students received their sorority bids and were officially placed into Panhellenic houses.
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Canvas returns after ShinyHunters ransomware attack on Instructure
By Gabriel Kopp | May 8Canvas, Mercer's digital classroom and course manager, worked on Friday morning just a day after it displayed a "currently undergoing scheduled maintenance" message after its parent company, Instructure, suffered a ransomware attack by ShinyHunters, a cybercrime group. Newsweek reported it found only school districts in Georgia were impacted by the outage and that no universities in the state had been hacked.
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On-campus casting call for Glen Powell movie seeks students
By Kristen Duncan | April 28Catrett Locke Casting is coming to Mercer University, as well as Macon and Savannah, Ga. looking for students, athletes and faculty as paid background extras in early May.
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Mercer’s inaugural Anya Krugovoy Silver Poetry Prize announces winner, honors legacy of late professor
By Clara Kurczak and Jacob Hossler | April 25The inaugural Anya Krugovoy Silver Poetry Prize, a newly established award that invites students at Mercer University not just to compete, but to celebrate poetry as an art form, was awarded to Isabella Ragsdale '26, who penned the poem "Semelparous." The award was created, its organizers said, to remember the life and legacy of Anya Krugovoy Silver.
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Model Arab League returns from Nationals with five awards
By Isabel Froula | April 20Model Arab League walked away from their National competition in Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Md. on March 26-29 with five delegates winning awards after competing against over 20 other colleges and universities from around the country.
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Starting anew: Lucas Meinberg's journey as a flautist
By Kristen Duncan | April 20After being told to switch instruments in middle school, Lucas Meinberg ‘26, playing the tuba at the time, attempted the sousaphone, which can weigh around 30 pounds and must be carried on the player's shoulder. But at the start of his high school career, Meinberg discovered his love for an instrument outside of the brass family. Meinberg, a little less laboriously than the sousaphone, picked up the flute as a freshman.
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Trustees approve CSC demolition, to build new student center in 2027
By Gabriel Kopp | April 17The new building will be part of a years-long, “Building for BEARS” project that will effectively replace the existing building with a newer facility. The acronym, a favorite rhetorical device of President Penny Elkins, stands for belong, engage, aspire, relax and savor.
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Death row exoneree Cousin urges Mercer students to fight for justice
By Kaylee Buchanan | April 15Shareef Cousin stood in front of a crowded Presidents Dining Room on Tuesday, April 14, and told the crowd that the legal field is not merely a career path, but a heavy responsibility that places “people’s lives in your hands.”
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Campus ministries collaborate to share gospel with students
By Kristen Duncan | April 15Baptist Collegiate Ministry hosted “Good to Be Loved,” a campus-wide worship night in Willingham Hall along with other organizations like AGAPE and Delight Ministries on Saturday, April 11.
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African Student Association hosts Miss ASA pageant
By Kaylee Buchanan | April 15The 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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Students share stories in record-breaking suicide prevention walk
By Nathaniel Jordan | April 12A 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 helping to raise more than $13,000 for suicide prevention.
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'Casting of Christ' movie trio explores depictions of Christ in media
By Brooke Longhurst | April 9The 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.
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MindLeaps and Imwe host remembrance for Rwandan genocide
By Hannah Mock | April 8Etienne 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.
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MU Runway travels through time at annual fashion show
By Brooke Longhurst | April 8Audience members time traveled through the decades of fashion at the third annual MU Runway fashion show on Thursday, April 2 in Penfield Hall.
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'Whence cometh that bear': Which species is Toby and Tot?
By Nathaniel Jordan | April 2The 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.
