“When you get on an airplane, they point to the exits, right? You’ve got to know where you’re going in case there’s an emergency,” Reffitt said. “It’s the same sort of thing with the AEDs.”
Often in life, people look back at the past and wish they did a few things differently. Whether that be in relationships, academics, career path, or maybe a hobby they wished they picked up, regret is there. The upperclassmen here at Mercer are no exception. The Cluster asked a few for advice and wisdom ...
Last school year, campus Fraternity and Sorority Programs embodied one of Mercer’s core values, service, by collectively raising over $126,000 for philanthropy, according to the 2024-2025 membership report.About one in five Mercer undergraduates is involved in a fraternity and sorority program across ...
For much of the fall 2024 semester, Pi Kappa Phi could exhibit only the letters by which they are best known around campus: Pi Kappa. “The first letter, the ‘Phi,’ was stolen by the Princeton marching band,” Morgan Kesler ‘25, the former president of the fraternity, said at the time.
The lengths of Oglethorpe Street, Tatnall Street and Monroe Street began to fill with pedestrians and residents of nearby neighborhoods around 2 p.m. on Sept. 28, some biking, some setting up tents. All were uninterrupted by the bustle of cars and trucks. Open Streets Macon had arrived in Macon, just a block from Mercer's campus.
Mercer hosted its annual family weekend on Friday and Saturday, welcoming parents, siblings and friends to campus. The weekend offered families an opportunity to see more of Mercer, complete with academic check-ins, informational meetings, a concert and the requisite tailgate before Saturday's ...
QuadWorks held its annual Cubstock event on Friday with a spot at this year's Bearstock opening act on the line. In addition to student bands competing to be selected as the opener, solo acts were a part of Friday's show.
The Student Government Association's Campus Safety & Improvements Committee (CSI) invited students to join them on a safety walk to explore the university's safety measures and hear concerns about campus conditions on Sept. 29.
QuadWorks transformed Penfield Hall into a plushy paradise as students lined up to stuff and customize their own bears on Sept. 27. With a line stretched all the way from the waterfall by the Cornell Student Center to the front of Penfield, the annual event attracts participants from across classes ...
Students raced through the first floor of Knight Hall on Sept. 26 during QuadWorks' cleverly named “Bear Hunt,” an annual scavenger hunt. Students had one mission: find the hidden rainbow Care Bear plushy accompanied with a brand-new Nintendo Switch Play and Mario Kart bundle.Over the course ...
Mercer University released data from the 2024 calendar year in its annual campus safety report on Wednesday, which includes statistics on crime and instances of fire on all four Mercer campuses in Georgia.Mercer collects the information from MerPo, the Title IX office, Student Affairs, Human Resources, ...
Toney Auditorium will be brought to life this Friday, Sept. 3 with music from rising artists on Mercer’s campus at Cubstock 2025, starting at 7 p.m.
Aliyah Waldon, a former Mercer volleyball player from Odessa, Fl., died Sunday after a months-long fight with cancer. She was 20.
Jeff Denny, who served for nearly 15 years as an associate dean for faculty matters of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, died over the weekend after a fight with brain cancer. He was 53."Dr. Denny was more than an administrator. He was a beloved professor, mentor and advocate for students," ...
The National Society for Black Women in Medicine invited Chinekwu Obidoa, associate professor of Global Health Studies and Africana Studies, to speak about sexual education on Sept. 24.“Knowing what we know about college culture and how little is said about sex ed, we wanted to be able to host a session, ...
Earlier this semester, students and staff received a message that an active threat had been reported on campus and that everyone should shelter in place. The report turned out to be false, but many students didn’t understand what to do in this situation.Chief of Mercer Police Haley Beckham told The ...
Students and professors took up the challenge of answering questions while eating hot wings at a QuadWorks event on Sept. 19. The event was based on the popular interview show “Hot Ones,” in which celebrities are asked questions about themselves and their careers while downing hot wings and, subsequently, ...
The Spencer B. King, Jr. Center for Southern Studies held a public screening for the documentary “Acts of Reparations” at the Douglass Theatre in downtown Macon on Friday, Sept. 19. The film follows Macky Alston and Selina Lewis Davidson, who co-directed and co-produced the work, in their search to trace back their lineage and personal connections to slavery.
On Monday, Alisha Mitchell '26 gaveled in the first session of the year as Student Government Association President. The meeting saw six new members get sworn in, but more than that, it was the first led by Mitchell, whose tenure with SGA started this month three years ago when she was elected ...
One of the tenets of Mercer University's School of Medicine (MUSM) is work in rural areas of Georgia. Rural health is a vital issue across the country because rural areas have fewer physicians and transportation available, as well as a higher rate of uninsured people and a higher risk of issues ...
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