Category Archives: Faculty and Staff

See How We Fight For Voting Rights In America? Very Mindful, Not So Demure

By Faculty and Staff, Students

Did you know that there are people out there who want to make it hard for you to vote?  What are they afraid of? Dr. Liette Gidlow, professor of history at Wayne State University, will speak on “Voting Rights in the U.S. from New Nation to Now”, on Wednesday, October 16th, at 4:30 pm in Bobbitt Auditorium, as the History department’s 2024 Coy James Lecturer in American History. Dr. Gidlow, a scholar of voting rights, woman suffrage, and Black electoral politics, is the author of The Big Vote: Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s – 1920s, and the editor of Obama, Clinton, Palin: Making History in Election 2008.  The lecture is free and open to the public. Don’t stay home! And don’t stay home on November 5th!

Posted on Wednesday, October 09, 2024 by Ellen Wilch (ewilch@albion.edu)

Yom Kippur Assistance and Community Available

By Faculty and Staff, Students

The Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is coming up this weekend, Friday at sunset through Saturday at sunset. Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish year and is marked by fasting, reflection, and prayers for forgiveness. Jews traditionally observe Yom Kippur by abstaining from food and water for 25 hours and not doing any work (that said, people whose health would be harmed by fasting are exempt). It is customary to wish one another an “easy fast” or “a meaningful Yom Kippur.” “Gmar chatima tova” is a traditional Hebrew greeting that means “May you be signed and sealed in the Book of Life.”

Albion Hillel will have a pre-fast dinner gathering at the Albion Malleable Brewery this Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. Food will be paid for.

Additionally, observant Jewish students staying on campus during the weekend may request a free green to-go box to save food for later from Baldwin. Email ltodd@albion.edu to learn more and reserve a box.

Posted on Wednesday, October 09, 2024 by Laura Todd (ltodd@albion.edu)

LGBTQ History Month Short Documentary and Discussion

By Faculty and Staff, Students

Join Spiritual Life for a short documentary-viewing and discussion with snacks on Wednesday, October 16th from 5:15-6:15 p.m. in the Belonging Lounge for LGBTQ History Month. Together, we will watch a documentary following the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (activists who use drag and religious imagery in performance and protest), as they tell the story of the day they Sainted Derek Jarman, a man dying of AIDS during the height of the crisis. After the film, we will have a brief discussion. Snacks will be provided.

Posted on Wednesday, October 09, 2024 by Laura Todd (ltodd@albion.edu)

Foraging and Cooking in Nature at Stirling Books and Brew

By Faculty and Staff, Students

Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 7 PM
Hosted by the Calhoun County Trailway Alliance chapter of the North Country Trail Association

This free event will be at Stirling Books & Brew, 119 N. Superior St.

Join us for an exciting foraging presentation with Val Rossman, an experienced forager who has incorporated wild food into her daily life since childhood. Val will share her journey with foraging, starting with hickory nuts and black raspberries, and offer tips on how to safely begin foraging yourself.

Don’t miss this unique event in Albion!

Posted on Wednesday, October 09, 2024 by Ashlynn Reed (areed@albion.edu)

Calhoun County Trailway Alliance of the North Country Trail Association Cancer Awareness Hike at the Whitehouse Nature Center

By Faculty and Staff, Students

Sunday, October 13, 2024 at 1:00 pm

Hosted by the North Country Trail Association

This free event will be at Whitehouse Nature Center.

WEAR YOUR PINK and join us for a 5-mile Cancer Awareness hike at the Whitehouse Nature Center. Meet at the interpretive building at 12:45 pm so that the hike can begin promptly at 1:00 pm.

A post-hike event will be hosted at Albion Malleable Brewing Co.

Posted on Wednesday, October 09, 2024 by Ashlynn Reed (areed@albion.edu)

National Coming Out Day Mini-Fest Thursday and Friday

By Faculty and Staff, Students

Several Albion College departments are working together to hold Coming Out Day events across campus October 10th and 11th, celebrating LGBTQIA+ identity, acceptance, and pride. See schedule below.

Thursday:

– 1:00-2:00 p.m. – FURSCA project presentations by Killeen Javorsky and Fox Dionysus in Mudd Library living room

– All day – Buttons, education station, and karaoke in the Kellogg Stack; stickers and book display in Stockwell Library

Friday:

– 11:00-2:00 p.m. – Coming Out photo opportunity, resources table, yard games, and light snacks on the Quad

– All day – Buttons, education station, and karaoke in the Kellogg Stack; stickers and book display in Stockwell Library

 

Posted on Wednesday, October 09, 2024 by Laura Todd (ltodd@albion.edu)

TODAY! Free Pizza and Workshop on the History of Voting Rights, 5:30-7:00pm

By Faculty and Staff, Students

First time voting in November? Lovers of democracy everywhere congratulate and thank you! First-timers and old-timers, if you want to learn a little more about this precious right, join the History department TODAY at 5:30 pm in the library’s Mudd Learning Center on Tuesday, October 8th, for a workshop on the history of voting rights. Freedom isn’t free, but the pizza is. Open to the public; everyone is welcome.

Posted on Tuesday, October 08, 2024 by Ellen Wilch (ewilch@albion.edu)