Sitting down to write this last column is bittersweet. While I am equal parts terrified and excited to begin my life outside the doors of Mercer undergrad, I will truly miss the friends I have made here, the memories that will remain in my heart and the lessons that I am sure will stick with me forever. Passing ...
As I sit down to write this column, I am astounded by how much backlash certain articles that ran in my section in the last edition have received. Most notably Gene Mitchell’s article about students’ call to run for SGA and Bryson Jones’ article about Body By Visalus. While these articles have ...
For the first time, The Cluster staff has chosen to endorse one of the two tickets running for Student Government Association president and vice-president. After listening intently to the debate and conducting interviews with both presidential hopeful Mollie Davis and her running mate Joshua Lovett, ...
So who has heard about the Trayvon Martin case? That might be more of a rhetorical question seeing as how everyone seems to have heard about it. Anyway, for those of you who have been hiding under a rock here is what happened. Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old high school student, was walking home from ...
Who has heard of the Rush Limbaugh scandal revolving around his brutal slander of third year law student Sandra Fluke on his radio show? I had no idea about it until yesterday, showing how extremely behind I am on American news, or what counts as news these days. I was helplessly unaware of the situation, ...
As a freshman at Mercer I was not interested in how many things there were to do in Macon. Let’s face it I was the girl who got extremely lost on the way to Target and who could not find Wal-Mart for the first month of school. As a sophomore and junior I cared more about the downtown nightlife than ...
It was announced before Christmas last year that Mercer and local media were coming together to create a Center for Collaborative Journalism. As a follow up to that, the director for Mercer’s new Center for Collaborative Journalism was announced this week. Tim Reagan-Porter is the President and ...
Mercer Law alumni and New York Times best-selling author Steve Berry visited Mercer Law School Friday, February 3 at noon to speak to law students, staff and fans alike. Berry is the author of nine best-selling international suspense thrillers including The Jefferson Key, The Paris Vendetta and The ...
It was announced this week by District Attorney Greg Winters that he will be seeking to try seven Macon teenagers as adults in the case of the rape of a Northeast High School student in January. The accused include two fifteen-year old students and a fourteen-year old student who were charged ...
Like many other students at Mercer, when I go home for school breaks I work a part-time job for extra money and to stave off boredom. I work at a chain grocery store where day after day I ring peoples’ groceries up. It was through my experiences working at the grocery store that I started to notice ...
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