The Collegiate Challenge - February 4, 1972

Title

The Collegiate Challenge - February 4, 1972

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume VII, number 11 and is twelve pages.

Content warning: This issue contains use of the N word on page 7.

This issue contains stories on the upcoming Black History Week events, including poetry readings featuring Sonia Sanchez, dance performances, plays, a soul food dinner; Board meeting news, including deciding part-time employee voting privileges regarding the negotiation power of the Federation of Teachers and Teachers Association, the possibility of a faculty senate, and zoning issues; speech and drama department head Donald Hiatt publishing a new textbook; an upcoming Model UN sponsored Washington State Delegation Chairman's Conference; one credit workshops in study skills; the Activity Council response to criticism published in the previous issue; a student senator attending a Los Unidos meeting to investigate claims around extra funding to the group; TCC Weekend College program; progress on planning a day care center; the need for volunteers to work with the sex offender program at Western State Mental Hospital; rezoning of 19th Street for commercial use; Swahili teacher Peter Wanguri; TCC student and owner-operator of Wheeler Vee Dub Volkswagen repair shop Jim Wheeler; Titan men's basketball news including upcoming games, wins and losses; student Rob Barner, who was the first TCC registrant in 1965, was drafted and sent to Vietnam for three years, then returned to TCC.

Also includes a Black History Week schedule; "Black Light" column discussing the Pan-African movement, Black Studies programs, calling for contributors; letters to the editor on the TCC Federation of Teachers Faculty Development Program, the establishment of campus radio station KTCC; editorial responding to allegations of misquoting a student senator; ads and classified ads; a guest student essay on musicians Joan Baez and Judy Collins; "Out of My Head" column on various campus topics; Black poetry section; music reviews of album "Nilsson Schmilsson" by Harry Nilsson, "His Greatest Hits Vol. II" by Bob Dylan; photo and announcement of students Johnny N. Henderson and Gertrude F. Young receiving scholarships.

Announcements include winter registration numbers; part-time campus jobs; film screening of Camelot; Ethnic Studies Laboratory hours; approval by the Friends of the TCC Library of book purchases in support of occupational programs; formation of a Photography Club; food stamps for sale at the bookstore; a blood drive; a newswriting internship with the Metropolitan Development Council; forensics team wins; a Political Science Forum sponsored panel discussion on President Richard Nixon's policies; an upcoming Los Unidos Culture Week.

Staff credits: Published by the Associated Students of Tacoma Community College. Editor in chief Cheryl Doten; chief photographer Charley Kuhn; sports editor Dann Tillighast; business/ad manager Gene Achziger; reporters Stephen Bowden, Mike Greenwood, Candice Hanes, Dolores Hill, Lamoyne Hreha, Jose Longoria, Joyce Rhodes, Owens Satterwhite Jr., Tod Sharlow, Ken Slusher, Ross Whitfeldt, Lynn Fitzpatrick; photographers Wade Cook, Shaune Liles, David Powers, Dan Richey, Bill Schrum, Bill Stephenson, Wayne Stewart, Tracy Stromberg; columnist Kathy Wardlow; artist Phillip "Rosy" Rosenbaum; cartoonist Gary Payn; culture page Ed Hawkins; office secretary Joyce Basozki.

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

1972-02-04

Contributor

Satterwhite Jr., Owens

Sharlow, Tod

Stephenson, Bill

Achziger, Gene

Rhodes, Joyce

Grant, Ron

Hreha, LaMoyne

Longoria, Jose

Chuku, Tabo

Osaju

Ufrabyu

Kuhn, Charley

Hanes, Candice

Tillinghast, Dann

Carman, John

Fitzpatrick, Lynn

Elgin, Ken

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-19720204_CollegiateChallenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)