The Mercer Cluster is the official student news publication of Mercer University. Production of The Cluster's print edition is subsidized by Mercer's administration, but the paper retains full editorial autonomy as a student publication under the university's bylaws and receives no monetary subsidies for its digital products. Its staff is composed entirely of students, plus a faculty advisor who serves in a consulting role. Students started publishing The Cluster in 1920. The paper received its name from a book of hymns penned by Mercer University founder and prominent Baptist minister Jesse Mercer in 1810, entitled "the Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns, and Sacred Poems." Former Cluster contributors include longtime Atlanta publisher Jack Tarver, former U.S. attorney general Griffin Bell, attorney and author Robert Steed, novelist and physician Ferrol Sams and Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor J. Reginald Murphy. For most of its history, The Cluster has been the only newspaper published by students of Mercer University. In 1971, a group of students began publishing "Mercer Today" as an alternative to The Cluster, but the operation folded in 1977. More information...
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