Albion Pleiad

Behind the scenes look at Albion College Western team.

Melissa Mercer-Tachick’s sled team during her 2004 dog sledding expedition.

Photo courtesy of Melissa Mercer-Tachick.

Finding a dollar bill in a library book or change in a vending machine at Albion College may not be as random anymore.  All students who enroll in the five yoga classes available per semester are required to complete 16 random acts of kindness per semester for strangers as one of the objectives of the [...]

It’s not every day that an Albion College student wakes up to a stranger walking into their room and asking where Baldwin Hall is.  But the Oct. 5 incident was only one of three separate, unrelated crimes that happened in a three-day span, according to Ken Snyder, director of campus safety. It has been five [...]

Where did the Wild Things go?

While it may seem that the number of squirrels on campus is holding steady, that is not quite the case for the number of students in Albion College’s 2013 graduating class. The final number of first year students is 434, down from a 30-year average of 490 students, according to Kevin Kropf, director of admission. [...]

On Wednesday, August 26, at 7:59 a.m. Albion students, faculty and staff logged onto the familiar Novell GroupWise e-mail system for the last time. From 8:00 a.m. on, all Albion users would be accessing their e-mail through Gmail, the free e-mail service provided by Google. The college chose to switch for financial reasons—the move saved [...]

It may be hard to read someone else’s mind, but it’s certain that they are “always thinking”—especially if they are Albion students.

Earlier in the month, chaos reigned next to the Kellogg Center as flames shot into the air. The cause: the sudden ignition of an electrical fire that spread quickly throughout the Gerstacker International House.

While you dump your plastic into one of the recycling bins around campus, you’re probably not keeping track of how much you recycle. But someone is.