The Collegiate Challenge - June 12, 1970

Title

The Collegiate Challenge - June 12, 1970

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 5, number 21 (actually the 22nd issue) and is twelve pages.

This issue contains stories on the newly elected student body president Barry Sheridan; unannounced visits from three Pierce County legislators at the Board of Trustees meeting following a two day suspension of classes (in response to protests and violence on US college campuses) in May, and other Board meeting business; Italian student Lucianes Stephanie; end of sports season with the tennis team tying for fifth, the track team placing eleventh, and the golf team placing third in their respective state tournaments; Don Moseid speaking on next year's prospects for the men's basketball team; 31 athletes receiving letterman jackets; a new Human Relations 100 course; the art department's annual art show; the student senate meeting, including discussion of possible investment in a mountain pass chalet, a failed motion to freeze the Challenge's funds; the raku process in Mr. Rhea's ceramics class.

Also includes editorials on the violence around the world and non-violent engagement at TCC, an attempt to freeze the Challenge's funds in retaliation for an article; letters to the editor responding to a piece in the previous issue about white students discussing equal rights, commending student representatives at the Community College State Convention, thanking the Challenge staff, expressing gratitude for the closure day discussions and absence of certain faculty, the proposed Human Relations 100 course; a list of all graduating students and their degrees; "With My Boots On" column with "parting shots" to various students, instructors, administrators, and other figures; the commencement graduation ceremony, which was voluntary for the first time; announcement of a student art show; art and literary page with poetry, photographs, images of sculptural works, a call for submissions to "The Mirror"; a photo marking the graduation of the first person to earn a degree through the extension program at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary; a guest editorial on Senator Robert Kennedy.

Staff credits: published by the Associated Students of Tacoma Community College; editor in chief Dave Workman; managing editor Dave Bannister; business and advertising manager Marshall Vigus; sports editor Tom Winter; feature editor Joanne Kingsbury; copy editor Sally Jennings; art and lit editor Gary Pedersen; chief photographer and lab technician Greg Scandamis; photographers Jim Gillespie, Tom Winter, Marshall Vigus, Dexter Keasler, Rich Frank, Neal Gregory, Bill McClarty; reporters Judy Grenier, Dexter Keasler, Kathleen Lund, Grant Fjermedal, Marshall Vigus, Dan Piwonski, Jenice Valbert, Bev Meyer, Lucille Spencer, Kirk Severin, Polly Lewis; secretary Georgia Scandamis; advisor Dennis Hale.

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

1970-06-12

Contributor

Gillespie, Jim

Fjermedal, Grant

Workman, Dave

Hale, Everett

Fitterer, David J.

Grizzard, Happy

Deyoe, D.

Conrad, Marie

Keasler, Dexter

Kiekhaefer, Scotty

Auge, Phil

Severin, Kirk

Binkley, Ken

mas

Winter, Tom

Lundquist, Ron

Lewis, Polly J.

Ayres, Susan

Stella, John

Winsley, Shirley

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-19700612_CollegiateChallenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)

Type

newspapers