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From Albion College Campus Safety–Last night (Sunday, April 14) the students who reported the discrimination incidents on Friday, April 5 reported again finding that racist and vulgar language had been written on the whiteboard located on their room door in Wesley Hall. Campus Safety investigated the incident and was able to identify the person responsible as an Albion College student. The student is no longer on campus.

Campus Safety is continuing to investigate whether this latest incident is related to the previous incidents that were reported on April 5. Albion Public Safety is also aware of this latest incident and is continuing their investigation as well. Anyone with information about any of these incidents is encouraged to contact Campus Safety (517-629-1234 or [email protected]), and/or the Albion Department of Public Safety (911 from a cell phone).

Two prominent almuni—Albion native and pharmaceutical exeuctive Barbara Weiskittel, ’83, and recently retired Britons football coach Craig Rundle, ’74—will speak to the Class of 2019 at Albion College Commencement. The event will be held Saturday, May 4, beginning at 1 p.m. (processional at 12:45 p.m.) on the Quadrangle in front of Kresge Gymnasium.

This fall, after an absence of almost 10 years, computer science returns to Albion College as a major. Citing a new campus environment and growing enrollment, officials saw this an ideal opportubnity to bring it back. “In today’s world, it’s an integral part of education.” said Provost Marc Roy. (Pictured left to right: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science faculty members Buket Aydas and David Reimann.)

As a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, Yale University international law professor Harold Koh spoke to Albion students about the importance of the rule of law, fighting for what you believe in, and understanding just how America remains on the world stage. “I want students to stand for something,” he said.

Nationally renowned pollster Peter Hart and immigration lawyer and advocate Angela Maria Kelley brought their expertise to Albion College over a two-week period in March as part of Albion College’s Visiting Scholars series. Their message? There’s a lot we need to talk about as a country.

Albion College’s institutes, faculty and course development are among the key areas of support in a recently awarded $500,000 grant from the Midland, Michigan-based Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation. As one example of how community-based learning will benefit, grant funds will facilitate the completion of the move of the Carl A. Gerstacker Institute for Business and Management and the Gerald R. Ford Institute for Leadership in Public Policy and Service into the downtown Ludington Center by fall 2019.

Albion College is pleased to announce four recipients of the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award, along with three recipients of the 2019 Young Alumni Award. A dinner and ceremony in recognition of this year’s honorees is scheduled for Friday, April 12 in Baldwin Hall.

The two longtime supporters of Albion College are driving a new fundraising initiative to make a pair of dreams a reality on campus. The first is a newly expanded fitness and student activity facility at the site of the current Dow Recreation and Wellness Center. The second is a new or renovated competition facility for the teams that currently call Kresge Gymnasium home.

An award-winning author and an environmental researcher will offer a wealth of ideas during Albion College’s 2019 Elkin R. Isaac Student Research Symposium. Natalie Dubois, ’97 (pictured near left), will present the Isaac Alumni Lecture on Wednesday, April 17, while Make Your Home Among Strangers author Jennine Capó Crucet (far left) will deliver the Symposium Keynote Address on April 18.

One of the iconic figures in Albion College athletics as a student-athlete, a coach and an administrator, Frank Joranko passed away March 8. The 1952 alumnus was a nine-time Britons letter winner (four in football, four in baseball, one in basketball) who returned to Albion in 1973 and coached two MIAA championship teams in football and nine in baseball. Joranko also served as athletic director for 16 years and was an associate professor of physical education.