Albion Pleiad

Okay, okay, I confess: I don’t like Coldplay. I find their larger than life anthems as an engineered opportunity to prove to the world how great they are. Like U2 before them, their hallmark seems to be their ego. However, whether it’s because of age or experience, the old, arrogant Coldplay is absent on their [...]

I’ll admit it—I’ve been known to watch a few episodes of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” in my day. It’s the ultimate definition of a guilty pleasure, feeling involved in someone else’s extravagant life. I had to stop, though, because I found myself caring far too much about the facets of their lives. I really [...]

Anyone venturing into the KC the night of Oct. 20 was greeted by a group of flailing, shoeless students, captivated by a band of  free-spirited twenty-somethings. This band of free-spirited twenty-somethings, Big Tree, is touring the country for six weeks in a van that runs on vegetable oil, to promote their second full-length album titled [...]

Flannel shirts and baggy pants. High heels, skin-tight dresses, and wigs galore.  The Stack in the Kellogg Center was transformed into a dance floor on Thursday evening. Men and women of Albion’s LGBT Community dressed in their best drag to perform to likes of Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga. Put on by the LGBT (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender) [...]

Dear Albion Students (more specifically the female population), I’d like to start off with a memorable quote from everyone’s favorite chick flick, Mean Girls. “In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In Girl World, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress [...]

Every year, factories expel 30 million tons of toxic chemicals into the environment. Every year, Americans produce 3,285 pounds of hazardous waste. Every Albion student can change this. The Center for Sustainability and the Environment (CSE) hosted its environmental awareness project at the Whitehouse Nature Center on Oct. 26.  Visitors were exposed to recent environmental [...]

When a story begins, “So this guy walks into the TKE house out of the blue…” you would hardly expect it to end in marriage. Dan Dwyer, a Tau Kappa Epsilon ’90 alumus, stopped by the TKE house on Oct. 15 and asked for two TKEs to help him hang a sheet sign asking his [...]

On Sunday, Oct. 16 the premiere of the second season of “The Walking Dead” aired on AMC. The episode, titled “What Lies Ahead” drew in a total of 7.3 million viewers, breaking TV history’s “most watched drama” record. According to AMC, “The season two premiere delivered 4.8 million Adults 18-49 and 4.2 million Adults 25-54 [...]

Purple has been popping up throughout Albion’s campus—and it’s not a resurgence of Albion pride. The sisters of Alpha Chi Omega are promoting their philanthropy this week with domestic violence awareness. Social networking has made a big impact on the advertising and promotion of domestic violence information available. “I really feel strongly about my sorority’s [...]

Thanks Albion Interfaith Ministries, some in the community of Albion have gotten a helping hand. Albion Interfaith Ministries (AIM) is an organization comprised of 18 different churches and an independent board. Its goal is to benefit the city of Albion and assist those less fortunate and is entirely volunteer based. Pastor Ramona Truss, director of Aim, [...]