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Students react to heated first presidential debate

Bear with Auxillary Services: vending machine card access coming soon

Hunger strikes during a midnight study session, and there are no snacks in your room. The vending machine glares at you from across the room, beckoning for you to come buy a treat. However, you remember you have no cash because you’re a broke college student. Never fear, you remember that your ...

Historic Macon announces second annual Fading Five list

The Historic Macon Foundation recently released its new Macon’s Fading Five list for 2016. This list showcases the top five historic structures and properties throughout Macon that are at-risk by neglect or possible demolition. The public nomination for these properties is made in May each year, ...

Quadworks brings camels to Cruz for Hump Day

Cherry Blossom Festival hires new CEO

The International Cherry Blossom Festival announced on Sept. 13 that they have appointed Thomas Wicker as their interim president and CEO. This announcement came just days after Jake Ferro was asked to resign on Sept. 6, according to a Telegraph article. “Thomas is fully committed to bringing his ...

Penfield professor talks trolling, media in new book

Whitney Phillips is the assistant professor of literary studies and writing at the Penfield College of Mercer University. She does not like the term “troll,” and in a telephone interview with The Cluster, Phillips laid down the facts on her recently-published book. Effectively titled “Why We ...

Man arrested after caught eyeing vehicles in Auxiliary Services parking lot

A Macon man recently was taken into custody for violating probation after being reported to Mercer Police for looking into vehicles parked in the Auxiliary Services parking lot on campus. Damacio Quintaly Collins, 40, was taken into custody on Aug. 30 after Cpl. Alvin Bearden spotted Collins and another ...

Mercer expands beauty and safety on campus

New bowling alley coming to Macon in mid-October

Mercer students will have the ability to bowl a strike at a brand new bowling facility beginning in mid-October. Pin Strikes Macon will be located at 4318 Sheraton Drive, just 13 minutes from campus. Regional Operations Director of Pin Strikes, Tim Mullen, said it is because “Macon was a good ...

The voice behind Siri

Apple’s intelligent personal assistant, Siri, lies in the pockets of millions of people all over the world. The Siri software provides weather forecasts, Google searches and restaurant tips instantly with a voice command. It may seem like holding a conversation with a cell phone. Once behind the ...

SGA approves all 45 organizations for Bear Grants

The Student Government Association held their annual bear grant senate in the Connell Student Center Monday. Representatives from different organizations gathered to learn if their funding requests had been granted for this year. All 45 groups who applied were approved for funding at the meeting. The ...

Yik Yak ditches anonymous feature, students react

To many, social networks are primarily used to keep in touch with loved ones. Yik Yak, an app that lets users post anonymous discussion threads with others in their local area, inverted that concept. However, the app has now switched gears and is no longer completely anonymous. The app’s 5-mile ...

Get to know new Bears

Every year, a new class makes their mark on Mercer's campus. Here are some of the fresh faces you'll be seeing this fall!   Lala Cumberbath Lala Cumberbatch is a freshman working to become a psychiatrist. One of the many impressive things about Cumberbatch is that she is a polyglot — she ...

Situation Room offers escape from normal weekend plans

If you’re looking for a new addition to your weekend plans that doesn’t include the usual slew of downtown stops, you’re in luck. This September, Macon’s first escape room will be open for business. Situation Room is an escape simulation that places guests into locked rooms and challenges them ...

Man arrested after reportedly harassing female students

A Macon man was taken into custody last month for violating his probation after he was reported to Mercer Police for allegedly harassing female students at Tattnall Square Park. John McDonald, 61, was on probation for aggravated assault, according to reports obtained from Mercer Police. He was arrested ...

Precepting program offers students writing help

Mercer University’s Precepting program offers students the extra help they may need when struggling in the university’s interdisciplinary writing classes. The program allows upperclassmen who have demonstrated advanced writing ability to attend an Understanding Self and Others (INT 101) courses ...

New printing system comes to library, ARC

There’s a lot of changes on campus this year; some are smaller than others. The Jack Tarver Library and the Academic Resources Center updated their printing system. “Students can print directly from a jump drive. They can print from a cloud based service such as Dropbox or Google Drive. They can ...

Mercer students won’t be charged to wash, dry clothes

A lack of coins or Bear Card funds will no longer stop you from washing your sweaty, ripening shirts and socks. Mercer students living on-campus won’t be charged when they load their laundry in a washer or dryer. The plan is something that has been talked about by Auxiliary Services and Residence ...

‘Bid Day’ brings new girls, glitter to Greek Row

Greek Row was a blur of pinks, blues and greens last weekend as fall sorority bid day festivities commenced. Sorority hopefuls spent the day confronting a mix of emotions from wondering if they were going to get an offer to join their preferred sorori- ty to running towards their members of their new ...

Students spend their summer in labs, classrooms and working in the community

Peru, South Africa, North Carolina, St. Louis and Macon. These are just a few of the places Mercer students spent their summers. They’re all majoring and minoring in different subjects, but they were all doing the same thing during their time off: research. Photo courtesy of Timothy Lewis Timothy ...