[2] 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.

In October 2005, The Cluster ran an opinions piece and full-page advertisement in support of a pro-LGBT student organization's first annual "Coming Out Day".

[3] News of the event sparked a month-long dispute between university president R. Kirby Godsey and the Georgia Baptist Convention, eventually leading the religious group to sever its 170-year-old ties and multi-million dollar endowment to the university out of a concern that Mercer had, as a report by CNN put it, become "more liberal than its Southern Baptist roots"[4] Since the split, Mercer has chosen to be no longer formally religiously affiliated.

In 2011, The Cluster launched its online edition in an effort to broaden its reach to students and the surrounding community, appointing its first digital editor, Carl V.

[5] In fall of 2011, the paper also added a new "Local" section in an additional push to broaden its geographic reach to the increasingly gentrified neighborhoods that compose the surrounding College Hill Corridor area.