2025 Softball Season: ‘Building Women of Character’

A group of girls wearing purple and white softball kits with gold lettering gather together on a mound of dirt surrounded by a white circle. The girls have purple visors, and all of them are wearing a baseball glove on their left hand.

2025 Softball Season: ‘Building Women of Character’

April 9, 2025 Lizzy Kelley 0

As the bitter Michigan winter comes to an end, the Britons begin another spring season of Albion College softball. On March 27, the softball team […]

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Fun Around Here: From Y2K to the Wild West, the World of Fratting

April 9, 2025 Jocelyn Kincaid-Beal 0

Upon admission to my third-ever fraternity (frat) party, I was immediately asked by one of the brothers who would win in a fight: a gorilla […]

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The Calm After the Storm: Students, Albion Staff Reflect in Outage Aftermath

April 9, 2025 Bonnie Lord 0

In the last three years, Albion College has experienced several severe storms and power outages. On March 30, Albion was hit with one of those […]

People wearing jackets and neon-green vests stand in a parking lot full of cars, facing away from the camera, looking at a line of cars in front of them. There are boxes full of produce and brown bags behind them.

Community Table to Leave Wesley Hall; ‘We’re Not Sure Where Our New Home Will Be’

April 7, 2025 Bella Fabrizio 0

Beginning this July, the Community Table of Albion will no longer be operating out of Wesley. The Community Table, a program that was created to […]

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Transformer Blows, Causing Second Campus-Wide Outage

April 7, 2025 Bonnie Lord 0

At approximately 4 p.m. on Friday, power was lost to buildings across campus. In an email sent at 6:56 p.m., Albion College announced that power […]

A multimedia fabric piece is hung to a white pillar beneath black lettering that reads “impulse, Senior Exhibition.” The piece displays a naked muscular person with orange hair.

Art, Art History Department Introduces Annual Senior Exhibition,’impulse’

April 7, 2025 Ashanti McKnight 0

oh Amidst the calm before the (literal) storm, the Art and Art History Department introduced their annual exhibit, with this year’s titled “impulse.” On March […]

A comic diagonally divided into two panels. On the left is an illustration of a sergeant yelling “I want to see bravery! I want to see courage!” at rows of fearful looking soldiers. The text at the top of the illustration on the right is the sergeant yelling “For this will be the toughest enemy you face!” Two soldiers look at one another nervously.

Comic: Facing the Registration Frontlines

April 4, 2025 Noah Guevara 0

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A woman dressed in a green dress with a black cardigan speaks from behind a wooden lectern in a brick-walled lecture hall. There is an individual wearing a purple and white dress shirt seated in front of her.

Annual Anna Howard Shaw Lecturer Angela Benander, Alumna ‘98: ‘I’m Going to be Afraid and Fight Anyway’

April 4, 2025 Killian Altayeb 0

Angela Benander, alumna ‘98, returned to Albion College on March 27 as the chief communications officer for Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. This year’s […]

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Photos: CSE Hosts Green Day, Sustainability Initiatives on Display

April 4, 2025 Gabriela Popa 0

A record-breaking 170 people attended the bi-annual Green Day event, according to Director of CSE Monica Day. On March 26 in the KC Stack CSE […]

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Plebian: Frats Kicked to Curb, Sororities to Move in

April 2, 2025 Gabriela Popa 1

(Part of The Plebian: April Fool’s Edition) Yes, you read that right. After year-long party problems such as fire alarms being pulled and letters stolen […]

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Plebeian: Squirrel Spotlight: Chester Webster, A Day in the Life

April 2, 2025 Sophia Valchine 0

(Part of The Plebian: April Fool’s Edition) The Albion Pleiad strives to represent diverse voices, and now our publication is giving a voice to the […]

Plebian: How to Get Ready When Your Roommate is Asleep, Dead to the World

April 2, 2025 Finn Brady 0

(Part of The Plebian: April Fool’s Edition) Getting ready in the mornings is already hard. Getting up earlier than your roommate is even harder. As […]