Albion Pleiad

Albion students made their mark around the world over break and last semester. Trips spanned to each part of the globe to diverse areas like France and Australia to a little of our own Michigan charm. Allen Park junior Alex Seasock on France I essentially had to learn to walk again, talk again, and look [...]

Earlier last week the Huffington Post published the Princeton Review’s list of the worst college towns in America. Our very own Albion College came in at number nine on the list, the only college out of the eleven that didn’t get a picture of the town itself. Of course to anyone who knows anything about [...]

Above: President Obama hugs Senator Gabrielle Giffords at his State of the Union address this past month. College students can be apathetic, lazy or, sometimes, burned out when it comes to keeping with the news. But some of the back-burner news is really insightful. Here are three things Albion College students should be aware of. Senator [...]

“Higher education is not a luxury. It’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford,” President Obama said in his Jan. 27 speech at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The President’s visit came at a critical moment as tuition costs for public universities are set to climb yet [...]

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for 2012 sold out last week in a record breaking three hours. Coachella is the largest music festival in the country drawing in 75,000 people over three days in the hot desert of Indio, California to listen to hundreds of top artists. This year Coachella will take place [...]

The winter season is upon us and with the winter, comes the inevitable hibernation of one of the planet’s most majestic creatures: the black squirrel. Being a very prominent and much adored animal species, the hibernation of these animals have crippled the morale of the student body, many of whom chose to attend this college [...]

I know what you’re probably thinking: “who is this guy and why is he talking to me about satire?” The answers to these two questions are quite simple, my name is Chris and I’m beginning a satirical blog on the Pleiad. After some pretty intense bouts of crippling boredom and a brief stint on this [...]

“Thank God that’s over.” Government intervention (their act to control the internet) is stalled. The Stop Online Privacy Act, otherwise known as SOPA, has been “shelved.” This means it’s been put on the back burner until a more appropriate resolution can be decided on. So for the time being, the bill is away from Congress. [...]

This year, Hollywood felt the nostalgia. Oscar nominations were announced early Tuesday morning, with Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist and Martin Scorsese’s Hugo leading the pack with 10 and 11 nods, respectively. Both films are, in some fashion, love letters to the ‘Glory Days’ of movies: The Artist is an homage to the silent film era, [...]

Following in a recent trend, Albion College Theatre Department has an athlete take center stage in their upcoming theatre production of Earl the Vampire. Following the footsteps of many current athletes performing in plays and musicals, sophomore Tre Ishmon of Milan just landed the lead role as Earl in “Earl the Vampire” and balances being [...]