I don't think that clustering makes sense on this sort of map.

One little thing that you can do to improve things is to make sire that 
all the resources that it uses actually exist. Error 404s can be 
inefficient.
   http://redhawks.semo.edu/www/images/admin/clear.gif
   http://redhawks.semo.edu/favicon.ico

It's a pity that GIcon.sprite is still undocumented, otherwise you could 
speed up the loading of those custom icons the way that Google do with 
things like
   http://maps.google.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/cb/pegman.png
Loading one larger image is a lot faster than loading lots of very small 
images.

There's a period during your page loading when 30 very small marker 
images are loaded one after another, taking a typical total elapsed time 
of 3.2 seconds. If they could be combined into a single image, that 
image would load in something like 0.3 seconds.

In your case, because this is a University project that probably doesn't 
need to be future proof, I'd suggest using GIcon.sprite anyway. If you 
think you might want to use the facility in the future, add your star to 
issue 760.
   http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=760

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