Campus News

PHOTOS: Family Weekend 2014

New Chapter for Mercer Maniacs

The Southern Conference is not the only exciting thing that is happening on Mercer’s campus this season. The Mercer Maniacs are also beginning a new division by allowing girls to “paint up” during sporting events. A new Mercer Maniac, Victoria Rexhausen, said, “I think it adds to the atmosphere, ...

The Revivalists Celebrate at SoCon Fest

To kick off their entrance into the Southern Conference, Mercer University hosted the SoCon Fest on the Black Field on Friday, September 5, 2014. The night included food from the Bear’s Den, many tents representing different organizations, and live music provided by the bands sunDollars and The Revivalists. Many ...

ESPN finds news home right here at Mercer

WMUB, Mercer University’s television station, is streaming now on Cox Channel 112, but the content is neither local nor live coverage… yet. In April, former State Sen. Cecil P. Staton Jr. and neurosurgeon Dr. Joe Sam Robinson donated the studios of WRWR, an independent television station based ...

New app keeps students, Macon in the know

Mercer Student Government Association recently launched Mercer Mobile, a mobile application that aims to connect students and the local community to Mercer University and Macon. The application is available for download on iOS and Android web-enabled phones or devices. Using Mercer Mobile, students ...

Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity suspended from campus after downtown brawl with ATO

By now, students have probably noticed that [inlinetweet prefix=".  . ." tweeter="@mercercluster" suffix=""]the Greek letters have been removed from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, and missing letters tend to start false rumors.[/inlinetweet] SAE was suspended after getting in a fight with ...

PHOTOS: Mercer staff, administration accept Ice Bucket Challenge

VIDEO: Dean of Students accepts the Ice Bucket Challenge

Tattnall Square Park inducted into the "ivies" of public parks

One of the oldest city parks in America, Tattnall Square Park, was named one of the twelve Frontline Parks this summer by the City Parks Alliance. This title is awarded once every month to a park that exemplifies innovation, urban park excellence and stewardship. The Frontline Park program was created ...

What you missed this summer

  TARDIS Library Is Installed -- Funded by a grant from the Knight Neighborhood Challenge, free “Little Libraries” are placed in various locations around Macon. One such library is located on the corner of College Street and Georgia Avenue and is in the shape of the TARDIS from BBC’s “DOCTOR ...

Pi Kappa Phi fraternity suspended

After Mercer University housing staff found alcohol on the front porch of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house on Friday, Aug. 16, a judicial hearing ruled to suspend the fraternity from campus for the remainder of the semester. The fraternity house is currently closed and locked, and the organization ...

Mercer’s Panhellenic Council hosts first annual Male High Heel Race

On Oct. 16 Mercer’s Panhellenic Council hosted the High Heel Race, its first philanthropic event of the semester. Non-Greek and Greek male participants paid $5 to $10 and raced up the street near Porter Patch wearing high heels. The first person to cross the finish line won a $30 gift card to Margaritas. ...

New Admissions and Welcome Center in the works

Ground was broken on a new admissions and welcome center on the east end of the campus last week. The Emily P. Myers Admissions and Welcome Center will help attract more incoming students, and join all the admissions’ staff in one central location. There will be many amenities available to both incoming ...

Mercer's oldest alumnae dies at 114

Mercer lost its oldest alum on Sunday, April 1. Dr. Leila H. Denmark a pediatrician who practiced medicine for more than 70 years, died from natural causes at the age of 114 in Athens, Ga. She was believed to be the first female pediatrician in Georgia and the world’s oldest practicing pediatrician ...

Davis, Lovett win SGA presidential election

Despite the majority of representatives to this upcoming SGA term being male, the Presidential Election was won by a female, along with the leading Senator-at-Large and Sophomore Class President also being female. Senators Mollie Davis and Josh Lovett won the Presidential Election over former Senators ...

Female voters key in Davis/Lovett victory

After April 13, those who supported former Student Government Association Senators Dalton Turner and Justin Robinson for President and Vice President may have wondered how their candidates lost by almost two hundred votes (twenty percent of the electorate).  After receiving the election demographics ...

Mercer alum named CEO of international non-profit

International non-profit organization Feed the Children has named a Mercer alumni as its new President and CEO, following a recent board of directors’ decision. Kevin Hagan is a College of Liberal Arts graduate from 1995. He matriculated with a Bachelor’s in history, political science and German. ...

Interim music school dean chosen, search committee formed

David Keith, director of graduate studies and associate professor of the Townsend-McAfee Institute for Church Music will become the interim, or rather a temporary, dean for current Dean John H. Dickson on July 1. Dean Dickson is leaving Mercer University after serving for four years to accept the position ...

Davis, Lovett win SGA presidential election

Senators Davis and Lovett won this year's SGA presidential election. Davis and Lovett picked up 60% of the vote to Turner and Robinson's 40% from a total number of 832 votes. Despite the majority of representatives to this upcoming SGA term being male, the Presidential Election was won by a female, ...

Robert Cook lectures for Southern Studies' Civil War Memory program

On Monday, April 2 the Southern Studies Program on Civil War Memory featured a lecture by author Robert Cook, from the University of Sussex, in the Medical School Auditorium. The author of Troubled Commemoration hosted a lecture entitled Civil War Centennial: Historical Commemoration in the Age of Civil ...