Mercer’s anti-human trafficking conference on March 19 and 20 drew in large crowds to Willingham Auditorium on the University’s Macon campus - with more than 800 people in attendance. In addition to media coverage from The event also drew media coverage during and after the conference. 13 WMAZ-TV and The Macon Telegraph did stories on the March 19 events, while Fox 24 news and 41 WMGT-TV covered the events on March 20. The Associated Baptist Press also ran story about the conference after it concluded.
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The Atlantic Sun Conference’s decision to hold its 2010 and 2011 basketball championships at Mercer University was big news in Middle Georgia. The impact of the men’s and women’s championships on tourism and the local economy was evident at the news conference announcing the event, with Macon Mayor Robert Reichert, Bibb County Commission Chairman Sam Hart and Macon-Bibb Convention and Visitors Bureau Director Janice Marshall sharing the stage with A-Sun and University officials.
All of the Macon media outlets were on hand for the announcement, including The Macon Telegraph, 13 WMAZ-TV, 41 WMGT-TV, Fox 24 TV and WMUM radio. The event was also broadcast live online through ASun.TV.
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A story from the Associated Press mentions Mercer’s new Four-Year Pledge as one of its bright spots in college financing during these tough economic times. The story was distributed on the wire service on March 18, and was immediately picked up nationwide, and by some of the biggest papers in the United States, including the Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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The College Hill Corridor Commission, along with Mercer students and faculty, began Bike Week on March 16 - a series of events meant to encourage and promote the use of bicycles in the city of Macon. The Macon Telegraph highlighted the efforts in a story on March 16.
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Dr. David P. Gushee, Mercer’s Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, penned an op-ed column in the March 16 edition of USA Today, the largest newspaper in the country. The article, titled “Mr. President, we need more than lip service,” calls on President Obama to do more than just talk about bridging the gap in the culture wars.
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Mercer’s anti-human trafficking conference, to be held March 19-20, earned coverage from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on March 12 and around the region March 12 and 13, as the Associated Press ran the story. The student-led conference is titled “STOP Sex Trafficking: The Call to End 21st Century Slavery.” Pre-conference events begin March 17, and the conference begins the evening of March 19.
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More information is also available on the conference Web page at www.mercer.edu/stop.
Mercer will host an anti-human trafficking conference March 19-20, and the Macon media began highlighting it this week. Fox 24 TV and 13 WMAZ TV ran stories on March 11, and Georgia Public Broadcasting’s WMUM radio also aired a story March 12. The student-designed conference is titled “STOP Sex Trafficking: The Call to End 21st Century Slavery.” Pre-conference events begin March 17, with conference kicking off the evening of March 19.
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More information is also available on the conference Web page at www.mercer.edu/stop.
The Associated Baptist Press covered Mercer’s multidisciplinary conference, titled “Caring for Creation: Ethical Responses to Climate Change,” on Feb. 27 and 28 on the Atlanta campus. The event was organized by the Atlanta Campus Quality Enhancement Plan Team as part of a campuswide effort to examine ethical issues of climate change in partnership with Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment.
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BB&T Corp. has pledged $1 million to Mercer’s Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics to establish a BB&T Distinguished Professorship of Capitalism and the Center for Undergraduate Research in Public Policy and Capitalism and to continue funding the University’s Executive Forum Presented by BB&T. The commitment garnered coverage on economics blogs and in the media following the announcement of the gift on March 2.
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The news also appeared on several blogs, including The Economic Way of Thinking and The Austrian Economists.
