Albion Pleiad

FireKeepers Casino opened in August, 2009, just 21 miles from Albion’s campus in Battle Creek.  With 2,680 slot machines and 78 table games including blackjack, craps and roulette, according to their Web site, there are many ways for students over the age of 21 to gamble, if they’re willing to risk their cash in hopes [...]

Delta Gamma’s annual Anchor Splash was held on Saturday, Feb. 27. This year’s theme: sitcoms. Delta Sigma Phi took first with their Golden Girls routine for the men, and Alpha Xi Delta won with George of the Jungle for the women. All proceeds from the event benefit Service for Sight and United Way. Photographs by Chris Amos.

On Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010, the Kellogg Center Stack rang with good vibrations as local bands battled it out in a contest of riffs and melodies to raise money for earthquake victims in Haiti.  Photo by Chris Amos 

Eric Scollon, 1994 Albion alum, has returned to Albion as an artist-in-residence  for the 2010 spring  semester.  His art has been displayed in numerous galleries in California, and his written work has appeared in American Craft Magazine.

The Office of Intercultural Affairs sponsored the showing of Chris Rock’s documentary, Good Hair, as well as the display of Crowning Glory, a collection done by Angie Redmond, ‘09 Chicago alumna.  The event was planned to help create discussion about the cultural ramifications of  Good Hair.

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 [...]

Photo courtesy of Rick for Michigan.

Student founds trivia night in Albion

Aracelis Girmay, winner of the 2009 GLCA New Writer Award for Poetry, reads her poem “Ride” on Monday, Nov. 23.