Albion Pleiad

Fine for crashing an Escalade into a tree in the front yard: $166. Subway chicken wrap for the mistress before a midnight romp: $3.99. Wiring money to the second mistresses’ checking account in return for her silence: $10 million. Having every sportscaster bet against you on your PGA tour return: priceless. There are some things in [...]

If you aren’t sure about where to take your life after high school, come to Albion College. We aren’t sure where we will be in the next few years, either, so together, maybe there will be a chance that we can figure out where we want to be. (Click on picture to view video.)

Men’s golf coach Chip Sandtrap has always believed that understanding the mental aspect of the game is important for achieving success in golf. So when his team encountered an eight match losing streak midway through the fall season, he decided to pull his athletes off the course and into a rehabilitation center.
On October 23, Sandtrap [...]

In an interview prior to the MIAA dual meets, diving coach Elyse Lee stated  that the conference was going to be one of the most competitive nationally in swimming and diving. The athletes themselves proved this to be true when the MIAA sent six divers out of a possible 44 to the national championships.
Every season [...]

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.