The Collegiate Challenge - December 8, 1972

Title

The Collegiate Challenge - December 8, 1972

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume VIII, number 10 and is eight pages.

This issue contains stories on student senate news, including bus costs and attempts to sell it, increasing services awards for officers; the Miss Greater Pierce County Pageant and half of the semifinalists being TCC students; the foreign student experience at TCC; the forensics team competing at the Husky Tourney against mostly four-year colleges and winning several first-place trophies; Christmas activities; how Christmas is celebrated around the world; Titan men's basketball news, including a game against the Olympic Rangers; Biology 106, "Contemporary Biological Problems" and environmentalism; TCC and Pacific Lutheran University courses at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary; department store Santas and what children request for Christmas; TCC construction plans for Referendum 31 funds, including classrooms, offices, and a cafeteria expansion.

Also includes a Christmas poem; editorials on the service awards increase, supporting the basketball team, a University of Michigan student government attempt at buying cannabis with student funds, the launch of Apollo 17 and peace on earth; letter to the editor addressed to full-time instructors regarding conditions for part-time instructors; letters to the editor requesting donations for Danny Boren of Grants Pass, Oregon; ads and classified ads; column on sex and contraception; a story about getting a traffic ticket during the holidays; final exams schedule.

Announcements include available scholarships; a benefit concert in support of Pacific Lutheran University establishing a center for formerly incarcerated people seeking college education; increase in veteran enrollment; open submissions for Mirror Northwest creative magazine; gym hours for Christmas vacation; formation of ski racing teams.

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

1972-12-08

Contributor

Powers, Dave
Achziger, Gene
Shelley, Joanne
Northwest Part-Time Instructors' Association
Tillinghast, Dann
Alakija, Lola
Allen, Tom
Dahl, Roger
Malloy, Mark
Campbell, Debra
Bloom, Steve
Turnbull, Daniel
Burke, Barb

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-19721208_CollegiateChallenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)