At Albion College, every student, regardless of their major, is required to channel their inner artist by taking one unit in the fine arts. According […]

Feb 3, 2025 · On Wednesday afternoon, students gathered on the quad to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Students chanted and marched around “The Rock,” some holding flags or homemade signs. Dallas sophomore River Morelli and Mount Pleasant first-year Nadia Burke, two of the protesters, read about the protest on YikYak, an anonymous social networking app geared towards college ...

The Pleiad is Albion College’s award-winning student news publication. Articles are published online three times a week. Print editions are published three times a semester. Editorial Board B…

Jan 29, 2025 · Since what Director of Information Technology Eric Beadle said has “been the better part of 20 years,” Albion Today has served as a central hub for event promotion, sending daily email digests to students and faculty “around 10 a.m.” However, on Jan. 24, the platform experienced technical difficulties due to what Beadle said was the platform “running on a version of WordPress that is ...

Jan 31, 2025 · As of this semester, the Gamma Gamma chapter of Sigma Nu’s fraternity house will be closed until fall 2026. According to current President of Sigma Nu and Dallas sophomore Nicholas Sheffler, the decision – announced in an email from Student Development – was the result of an investigation into an event held in the house during the fall 2024 semester. Sheffler said the event in question ...

Dec 8, 2023 · On Friday the students of Albion College received an email from Student Development, signed by Vice President for Student Development Leroy Wright, which alerted the campus that students’ “go-to coffee destination” – The Grinds – will no longer serve Zingerman’s Coffee and will instead shift to We Proudly Serve Starbucks. This change will come after many years of The Grinds serving ...

Dec 4, 2024 · On Thursday, in the midst of a snowy Albion day, students and staff gathered from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the first floor of the KC for the Senior Class Gift (SCG) committee’s second annual Pie The President event. During the event, students were given the option to pie a peer for $3 or President Wayne Webster for $5. Staff members could also join in and pie President Webster for $10. All the ...

Oct 27, 2023 · I came to Albion because it was one of the most accessible campuses I toured back in 2022. Now that I’m almost halfway through my sophomore year, that seems like a joke. When I moved in as a first-year, the experience felt like hell. It was already scorching hot outside, and all I wanted to do was take a shower; the problem was my roommate and I couldn’t get the door open. From what I ...

Nov 8, 2024 · Since Sep. 22 of last year, the city of Albion has been waiting for an update on what was to be done about the five dams in the Kalamazoo River. The update? The Wightman group decided on option one of three: all five dams will be removed, but the water will be kept in all three of the river channels. On Nov. 6, the Wightman group, accompanied by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and ...

Nov 22, 2024 · Read the “prologue” of this series to learn more about the value of comics in journalism. Read part one of this series to learn more about the history and economic impacts of solar development in Sheridan Township. The following sources were used in reporting for this article: For additional details about the solar company discussed in this article, find more about Calhoun County Solar on ...