The Collegiate Challenge - May 23, 1969

Title

The Collegiate Challenge - May 23, 1969

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume IV, number 22 (actually the 23rd issue of the academic year) and is twelve pages.

This issue contains stories on the progress (or lack of) toward Obi's demands, with dual interviews with Obi Society Chairman James Walton and TCC President Dr. Thornton Ford, as well as interviews with Black and white students; the upcoming (mandatory) commencement ceremony; forensics team members earning National Community College Forensics Tournament certificates of excellence; representatives attending the Washington Association of Community College Student Governments (WACCSTG) conference with TCC students taking several honors, including election of Phil Shinn as Central Region Chairman and state chairman, student Bonnie Winston winning runner-up in the Miss Washington Community College pageant, election of Activities Coordinator Paula Eisenman to the advisers board, and a commendation to student body President Ross Briggs; community colleges news, including the erroneous report by the Vancouver college newspaper that the Challenge had won a first place prize (they won second); a petition from students asking for legal action against "disruption" following the fight on campus; proposal of a new class by political science instructor John Swarthout and Obi chairman Jim Walton on contemporary Black problems and politics; the track team going to the Washington State Community College tournament; the tennis team's ongoing participation in the Washington Community College Championships; the golf team winning third place in the state tournament; David D. Woods speaking at an ad hoc campus gathering on Tacoma issues; freedom of speech and violence; hiking Mt. Pete; "strangers" in the parking lot; the police response to the "Hilltop disturbance"; the Model United Nations Club's attendance of the Far West Conference in California; a new Marine Corps program for men without baccalaureate degrees to become commissioned officers; an upcoming Artist and Lecture series concert by the University of Puget Sound Concert Band; the creation of a new Math Lab by Dean of Instruction Dr. Paul E. Jacobsen and run by Pat Dyer.

Also includes photos relating to the fights over the rock on campus; announcements of an upcoming dance with music by B. J. Thomas, appointment of student Peter W. Kippe to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, two TCC chemistry students receiving summer research grants at Pacific Lutheran University, the upcoming dedication ceremony for the TCC Arboretum; exam schedule; announcement of Mathematics Department Chairman Joseph A. Betz being chosen to attend a math institute at the University of Oregon; editorial commending Records Officer Joseph Kosai on his deescalation of the police presence at the fight at the rock; a guest editorial on the "War on Poverty"; a headline "Laviola Condemned" marked "Censored" and an accompanying drawing; a letter to the editor about the proposed Communications Club; an "In Memorium" notice for James Rector of Berkeley, California killed by police; Art and Literary Supplement with poetry; an interview with sophomore class representative Dave De Forrest.

Staff credits: published by the Associated Students of Tacoma Community College; editor in chief Carl Zook; managing editor Don Swanson; associate editor Tom Ries; business manager Nils Olson; Art & Literary Supplement editor Jerry Gollinger; sports editor Dennis Howes; copy editor Hallis Morgan; feature editor Grant Fjermedal; chief photographer Philmore Appling; photographers Phillip Appling, Richard Frank, Scott Stephen, Mike Hughes, Frank Flemming; reporters Bill Johnston, Terry Rice, Doug Jacques, John Kelly, John Terrien, J. D. Seidel, Penny Meyers, Dave Workman, Dick Delin; circulation Peggy Loverin; advisor Dale Wirsing; secretary 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

1969-05-23

Contributor

Zook, Carl

Kelly, John

Hughes, Mike

Delin, Richard W.

Gollinger, Jerry

Rice, Terry

Howes, Dennis

Paton, David

Vidor, Winston

Simon, Gary E.

Hadland, Jack N.

Johnston, Cliff

Fjermedal, Grant

Workman, Dave

Fincham, Fred

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-19690523_CollegiateChallenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)

Type

newspapers