The Collegiate Challenge - November 18, 1966

Title

The Collegiate Challenge - November 18, 1966

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume II, number 4 and is six pages.

This issue contains stories on the participation of Tacoma Mayor Harold M. Tollefson in an advisory board to the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service, which made several recommendations for improvement of the Selective Service, including alternatives to being drafted; a letter from student Pat Stoaks to science instructor Russel Clark, detailing her experience teaching in New Zealand; the first annual Pep Club dance and newly announced club staff; a call for more Young Democrats members; preseason planning for men's basketball and season schedule; swimming, wrestling, golf, and bowling intramural events; cross-country meets; the lack of TV broadcasting for college football; English instructor Carolyn Simonson; new Winter Sports Club and a planned ski trip; an upcoming contest for a Titan logo; Folk Club elections and events; a ride-along with local law enforcement; history professor Dr. Ronald Magden and his thoughts on TCC progress; the TCC flight of the University of Puget Sound Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) winning the Esprit-de-corp award; planned choir concerts and need for more tenors and basses; Associated Student Body (ASB) meetings; a visit from former administrative assistant to Washington Secretary of State A. L. Kramer, Everett Griggs, to the Young Republicans, and other YR business; the Daffodil Committee and [parade?] float design; Artist and Lecture series films; medical benefits for veterans and a planned meeting of the Veterans Club.

Also includes a letter from Robert Lewis, serving in Vietnam, reprinted from the Muscoda (Wisconsin) Progressive; editorials on the passage of Proposition B and failure of Proposition A (both relating to school funding), delays in the design of a Titan logo, campus grass being trampled; an interview with TCC "poet laureate" candidate Warren Churchward; short stories; a call for a Peace Essay Contest by Lions International; Literary Magazine and sophomore class meeting announcements; announcement for the Challenge collecting Christmas gifts for residents of Remann Hall.

Staff credits: published by Associated Students of TCC; editor-in-chief Jim Simpson; production editor Warren Churchward; sports editor Tim O'Grady; assistant sports editor Mike Stork; city editor Penny Drost; drama editor Jan Balding; featur editor Mary Beal; business manager Shirley Coleman; ad manager Gary Westcott; circulation managers Miriam Beal, Hal Palmer; copy editors Ann Reber, Nora McNerthney, Leaha Lund; advisor Monty B. Jones; secretary Mrs. Pat Loth.

Subject

College student newspapers and periodicals

Community colleges

Creator

Associated Students of Tacoma Community College

Source

Tacoma Community College Archives, Special Collections Library

Publisher

Tacoma Community College Archives

Date

1966-11-18

Rights

Use is governed by Tacoma Community College's Creative Commons Copyright policy requiring attribution and share-alike intentions.

Format

PDF

Language

English

Identifier

TCCAL_CC-19661118_CollegiateChallenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)

Contributor

Vigus, Marshall

Stoaks, Pat

Lewis, Robert

Drost, Penny

Churchward, Warren

Simpson, Jim

Schneider, Joan

Smith, Elsie

Patterson, Jan

Beal, Miriam

Balding, Jan

Lund, Leaha

Coleman, Shirley