A Mercer Police officer punched a fellow officer in the face Jan. 20 after an argument occurred between the two around 3 a.m. According to the incident report, Joseph Calloway and his supervisor, Cpl. Wesley Hillard got into a verbal argument about a noise complaint dispatched that morning, resulting ...
Man was charged with murdering two Mercer students in 1995 On Feb. 21 Andrew Allen Cook will be sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of two Mercer students. Cook was convicted in a 1998 trial of murdering 22-year-old Grant Hendrickson and 19-year-old Michele Cartagena. At approximately midnight on ...
There’s a new kid on the block of Mercer Village: the William Alexander Salon. The salon is open for business, although it is still being renovated. The salon hosts an array of services from hair services to waxing to nail services. It also offers massages and makeup services. It is essentially a ...
Exciting opportunities continue for the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer’s Townsend School of Music. Students from all over the country applied to compete in the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) national solo competition. Of the limited 12 finalist positions in the Senior ...
Mercer University is currently one of the national finalists for the 2013 ArtPlace Grant. If obtained, Mercer plans to use the funds gained from the grant to renovate the Tattnall Square Presbyterian Church. According to Lake Lambert, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, “We made the first cut and ...
On Jan. 24, Georgia Power President and CEO Paul Bowers visited both the Atlanta and Macon campuses of Mercer University to give a presentation to the Mercer Executive Forum. Funded in large part by BB&T, the Executive Forum of Mercer University aims to be an outreach program of the business school ...
An up and coming Mercer tradition, Stompfest, hosted by QuadWorks, is around the corner. The event is scheduled for Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. at the Grand Opera House in downtown Macon. Stompfest is a step show that hosts an array of Greek organizations from all over the state including Mercer’s own organizations. Tickets ...
Author Lee Smith is the 2013 winner of the Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature. Mercer University’s Southern Studies Program awards the Sidney Lanier Prize to honor significant contributions to Southern writing. The stories Smith writes are often about the southern Appalachian Mountains. Her ...
Around 20 Mercer seniors are considering beginning their life after college by spending nine months in a land nicknamed the “The Country of Smiles”. With the Teach Thailand Corps, part of American-Thai Foundation, they will teach conversational English to children grades k-12 in Thailand. English ...
Mercer Alumnus Dr. Ferrol Sams Jr. , 90, died Tuesday of natural causes. Sams was know by his friends as, "Sambo." Sams is best known to Mercer students as the author of “Whisper of The River.” The book was first published in 1984. “Whisper of The river” has been required reading for Mercer ...
A table was set up with prize give-aways and raffle tickets in the Hummingbird on Jan. 10 for the charity organization known as Dance Marathon. Members of Dance Marathon accepted money donations and sold koozies, t-shirts and themed cups. Members also provided information about Dance Marathon to anyone ...
Mercer University is hosting its fifth annual First Pitch Classic on Feb. 13. The First Pitch Classic is an event held by Mercer as a kick-off for the baseball team’s season. The event will be held in the University Center. Coach Craig Gibson has announced that the featured speaker for this year’s ...
Last semester, Bob Hoffman, Head Coach of the Men’s Basketball team at Mercer and Rick Cameron, “The Voice of the Bears” began a radio show entitled The Bob Hoffman Radio Show. Hoffman and Cameron join at Margaritas to host a live show every Tuesday night at 6 p.m. Hoffman and Cameron will host ...
At least six undergraduate students have been accepted to the 27th annual National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR), forming what Honors Director John T. Scott believes to be the biggest contingent of Mercer students to attend in the history of Mercer’s participation in the conference. The ...
President Mollie Davis motioned to suspend normal business at the beginning of Student Governor Association’s first meeting this semester order to swear in the new Media Secretary, Caroline Cooper. The meeting was held Monday Jan. 14 at 5:30pm in the Connell Student Center. Cooper replaced Edward ...
Mercer University’s School of Medicine will be cooking up success as they raise money during their chili cook-off. The Medical School Chili Cook-off will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 23. The event will raise funds for the much anticipated match day at the medical school as well as the Crescent House. The ...
Distinguished Mercer Alumnus and Governor of Georgia Nathan Deal was selected for the honor of Georgian of the Year according to Georgia Trend Magazine. Deal was featured in the January 2013 issue. Deal is the 11th Mercer alumnus to hold the governor’s office. He was inaugurated as Georgia’s 82nd ...
Mercer’s ROTC went to Fort Gordon in Augusta, Ga. for a land navigation FTX (field training exercise) in mid-November. The excursion was mandatory for all contracted cadets in ROTC. While at Fort Gordon, cadets practiced their ability to navigate wooded terrain. Each cadet had a canteen of water, ...
The Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer has been given an incredible opportunity to expand their facilities off campus. During the first week of November, trustees of the Atlanta-based Robert W. Woodruff Foundation approved a $1.5 million grant to renovate the historic Bell House into a new ...
Student Government Association unanimously voted to approve Hoffman’s Hooligans as an official organization. The Hooligans held their first official event by painting and cheering at the homecoming game. Hoffman’s Hooligans began during the 2009-2010 basketball season by a group of students who ...
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