As the holiday season approaches, thefts are on the rise. From Oct. 12 to Nov. 23, thirteen criminal offenses occurred on the Macon campus. Nine of these cases were thefts by taking. CRIMES OF NOTE: Oct. 30: A person stole $200 worth of copper refrigeration tubing from the roof of Mercer Lofts Phase ...
The end of a semester, the ushering in of a new year, contagious holiday cheer—all are completely valid reasons to celebrate the season, and Mercer has always made a point of celebrating the holidays in style. This year, Quadworks is set to sponsor a Winter Wonderland for all of Mercer’s ...
Special committee for parking Vice President Jolly is spearheading the creation of a short-term special committee to investigate parking related concerns. The goals of this committee are to investigate student concerns, collect and gather data on the current parking situation, and develop solutions ...
[video credit="Marin Guta " align="right"][/video] Mercer's new vision is to make Middle Georgia the Silicon Valley of the South with the introduction with the Mercer Innovation Center. The center aims to provide a physical space for technology, programming, resources and access to a talent pool, ...
“It’s like a wrestling match,” said Ashton Cubbedge, a Mercer junior who transferred from Armstrong State University this fall. In this wrestling match, it’s thousands of pounds of steel instead of flesh and bones. And the winner’s prize is a parking space instead of a gold belt. But administration ...
“The crimson snow, the voices you hear, all you know is ghostly fear” when you are engaged in the thriller “Crimson Peak.” “Crimson Peak,” directed by Guillermo del Toro, is a suspenseful and gruesome film set in the early 20th century. The film begins with the introduction of a little ...
The footage has played on the news for months. Men, women and children — refugees — fleeing their homelands. The current focus is on those escaping the conflict in Syria, but the Mercer International Affairs Organization (MIAO) wants to bring light to the issue’s breadth with an event Nov. 16. “This ...
Campus Engagement Committee The Campus Engagement Committee was very busy this week. They have already begun work on their top four initiatives: diversity awareness, sexual assault awareness, athletic involvement, and Greek relations. Senator Scherf explained that diversity awareness encompasses ...
Robots will battle and fight for glory in Mercer University’s Department of Computer Science’s first public competition. Mercer’s Battle Bot Bear’s Competition will take place on Nov. 7. The battle is a double elimination event that will happen on Cruz Plaza. “We wanted something fun, yet ...
Mercer University Police Chief Gary Collins advises students to protect themselves and be safe. Mercer students have been victimized in a string of auto-related crimes. From Sept. 2 through Oct. 12, two vehicles have been stolen, and there have been five documented incidents of entering autos. Signs ...
Mercerians participated in a slew of events the week of Oct. 19 to mark the university’s 2015 homecoming season. The Disney-themed week started off with pumpkin carving in the Quad and a showing of Disney’s “Maleficent” in Willingham Auditorium Sunday evening. On Monday, a lip sync competition ...
The second night of Homecoming festivities included a lip sync competition where organizations dueled it out with Disney-inspired performances. Here are the results from tonight: Lip Sync Greek Organization Winners: Alpha Delta Pi/Lambda Chi Alpha Alpha Gamma Delta/ Kappa Sigma Phi Delta Theta/ ...
[infographic align="right"] [/infographic] Projectors. Printers. Laser tag trips. Sound boards. Organizations on campus need a wide variety of things to function, and they don’t always have the funds to cover them. Every year, Mercer’s SGA is allocated a certain amount of money, known as Bear ...
On Oct. 1 — the last day allowed by federal law — Mercer University Police posted their annual Crime Awareness and Campus Security report to their website in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. The document includes information ...
Mercer University’s Townsend School of Music had its shining moment on an unlikely national platform — the stage of the 95th Miss America Pageant Competition. Mercer music student Betty Cantrell competed in front of an estimated 7.1 million viewers, according to Nielson Twitter TV Ratings. Some ...
One of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honor societies will make its home at Mercer, according to a letter from President Underwood. This afternoon, during Phi Beta Kappa's 44th Triennial Council, delegates found that Mercer qualified to host the honor society on its campus. This means that ...
Bear Forum About 15 students attended tonight's Bear Forum with SGA and they raised a variety of concerns, including: Internet speed and bandwidth Requests for more Bear Card tappers outside of Residence Halls Potential of a feature in the Mercer Mobile App that would allow you to see which study ...
PARKING Student Government Association (SGA) President Austin Harrison met with President Underwood very recently, and in that meeting, they discussed parking. President Underwood told Harrison that he wanted students to know that 120 parking spots should be coming online next semester. On the ...
Now that the construction is cleared away and the structures are complete, the Lofts at College Hill on Hardeman Avenue are focusing on building community through events to get residents more acquainted with downtown, the new living space, and each other. For example, on Aug. 25 the Lofts at College ...
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