Albion Pleiad

A team’s ability to finish a game might be the key to their success.  It is proven that the teams who keep victory within reach until the final minutes and play their best when the clock is winding down are the ones who win on a consistent basis.
Unfortunately for the Albion women’s basketball team, it [...]

Keeping Liberal Arts at Work (KLAW) held a forum for students at 10:00 p.m. at the Coffee House to discuss the implications of the proposed faculty cuts. Photo courtesy of Kaylee Pope, Grand Rapids senior.

The Albion College Empirical Niphametric Sculptures (ACENS) Society participated last month on Jan. 27-30 in a 48-hour snow sculpting competition in Frankenmuth, Mich. ACENS split up into two groups for the competition to make up two of 19 teams competing.
“After a while, you get a bad back and bad arms,” said Brandon Markle, sophomore and [...]

Kyle Francis, staff writer, weighs in on Albion sports in his weekly column, Breaking the Press.

As night fell over campus in the winter of 2001, Dory Lerew, alumna and current admissions employee, was making her way down to Victory Park with her friends and her sled of choice, a Baldwin dinner tray.
It has been nine years since Lerew was a student here, but she still keeps two trays in the [...]

Lauren Rao, Detroit first-year practices a dive to prepare for the MIAA conference championship Feb. 11-13.

Men’s basketball defeats Trine to break losing streak, scheduled to play Kalamazoo.

The Albion College Swim and Dive team train over Christmas break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Photo courtesy of Emily Magyar

Albion College puts the ’student’ before ‘athlete’

It may not have ended quite the way they expected, but overall, the men’s soccer team left the field Saturday after an overtime loss to Adrian proud of the way that they performed throughout the season.
With the team returning a majority of their line-up from the previous season, head coach Jerry Block felt that his [...]