Staff Recs: Our Favorite Childhood Halloween Costumes

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Staff Recs: Our Favorite Childhood Halloween Costumes

October 8, 2025 Jocelyn Kincaid-Beal 0

Spooky season is officially upon us, and you know what that means: It’s time to come up with a Halloween costume. From oddly specific football […]

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Pleiad Print Edition: September 24, 2025

September 24, 2025 Jocelyn Kincaid-Beal 0

Click here to view the September 24, 2025 print edition. Prints of this edition can be found in academic buildings across campus and in storefronts […]

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Student-Led and Culture-Rich: OLA Hosts HHM Events

September 24, 2025 Jocelyn Kincaid-Beal 0

Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) is a national, annual celebration that takes place from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. According to the National Museum of the […]

Two men sit on the edge of a low, carpeted stage, with a blank white screen behind them. The man on the left wears a dark blue short-sleeved button up, and is speaking and holding a book in his lap. The man on the right has a white beard and wears a white short-sleeved button up, and is looking to the right.

David Nelson ‘10 and Wes Browne ‘96 Bring Crime to Campus for AC Reading Series

September 22, 2025 Jocelyn Kincaid-Beal 0

For a variety of reasons, people the world over have a fascination with crime and criminals – and Albion alumni are no exception. On Wednesday, […]

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Pleiad Staff Recs: What the Heck Did We Watch This Summer?

September 12, 2025 Jocelyn Kincaid-Beal 0

As staffers of a multi-media publication, it should come as no surprise that our summers are as much about consuming stories as they are about […]

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WGSS, Ethnic Studies Merge; Faculty Hope to Build Community, Stability

September 10, 2025 Jocelyn Kincaid-Beal 0

Ethnic studies and women’s, gender and sexuality studies (WGSS) are two of the youngest and smallest departments at Albion. Despite only having 12 majors and […]

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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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Transformer Blows, Causing Second Campus-Wide Outage

April 7, 2025 Jocelyn Kincaid-Beal 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 […]

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Staff Recs: The Best and Worst Pops, From Poppi to Dr. Pepper

March 28, 2025 Jocelyn Kincaid-Beal 0

When we’re not busy trying to figure out what the heck Yik Yak is, getting out of a book slump or getting inside of the […]

A woman wearing a colorful striped dress and a yellow sweater sits on a stage, holding a book that says “Mama Said” on the cover. Behind her is a blank projector screen, and next to her on the stage is a black water bottle.

2024-2025 AC Reading Series Closes Out with Author Kristen Gentry

March 26, 2025 Jocelyn Kincaid-Beal 0

When Kristen Gentry took the stage in Bobbit Auditorium, she asked the audience: “Is it cool if I just sit here and read?” Met with […]

Four images share equal space in a rectangular grid. From left to right: a sign reading “John Proctor is the Villain” stands in green grass with buildings in the background, a crowd of people sitting on bleachers looking down at athletes lined up on a football field, glowing theatre marquee advertising the movies “Nosferatu” and “Mufasa” with show times and a blue tub containing two yellow ducks and a grey duck.

Opinion: So, What Do You Do for Fun Around Here?

March 19, 2025 Jocelyn Kincaid-Beal 0

“There’s nothing to do here.” In my nearly three years at Albion, that’s the most common complaint I’ve heard from students. In those same two […]

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Doing Hard Things: Advocating for Trigger Warnings in the Classroom

February 24, 2025 Jocelyn Kincaid-Beal 0

When I was in fourth grade, my teacher showed a documentary about the meat and dairy industry. At one point she paused it, and said […]