The Collegiate Challenge - April 6, 1973

Title

The Collegiate Challenge - April 6, 1973

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume VIII, number 18 and is eight pages.

Content notice: This issue contains an outdated and now offensive term for disability on page 4.

This issue contains stories on conflict between faculty and administration, including a refused faculty request for a closed board meeting, a faculty vote of no confidence in the administration, eleven faculty members being notified of possible layoff, and faculty refusal to participate in a committee to investigate alternatives to employee reductions; biology instructor Ivonna McCabe being chosen 1973 Outstanding Educator of America; student senate positions on current campus conflict, including interest in participation in the proposed committee, their own no confidence vote, their position paper declaring "re-establishment of education as the top priority" at TCC; faculty inviting the board to meet, expressing frustration with Falk being appointed board negotiator for bargaining, and investigating rumor of a closed board and administrator meeting; anthropology instructor Robert Adams and his predictions of a swing toward conservatism; driving through California; a Weyerhauser Foundation grant for education at McNeil Island State Penitentiary; TCC being listed in the new Servicemen's Opportunity College Catalog; golf team news; the need for involvement in student government; the possibility of a new video course program; tennis team news, including many new members; Fort Steilacoom Community College and TCC collaborating on drama productions; the new Servicemen's Opportunity College program, designed to reduce barriers to veterans' educational goals.

Also includes editorial on writing editorials; an open letter from student government expressing no confidence in president Ford and his assistant Richard Falk; letters to the editor suggesting conflict with faculty is result of changes related to new occupational education programs, announcing a dance at Totem Service Club at Fort Lewis, complaining about admissions office staff; ads and classified ads; sports editorial on the possible layoff of head basketball coach Don Moseid; a music review of Led Zeppelin.

Announcements include spring student elections, auditions for the Tacoma Civic Ballet, a dance at Fort Lewis, a lecture on UFOs by the Tacoma Astronomers Inc. at the University of Puget Sound (UPS), Christian Science Informal Group meetings, a Friends of the Library book sale, need for volunteers to help with developmentally disabled adult classes, a folk rock Sabbath service at Temple Beth El, geology instructor Dr. Jack H. Hyde being selected chairman for the Geological Society of America meeting in Portland (OR), upcoming Activities Council events, men still needing to register for the draft, a visit from a UPS representative, request for blood donations for art instructor Frank Dippolito's daughter Jennifer, upcoming Seattle concerts by Bread and James Brown, discounted Gordon Lightfoot concert tickets for sale.

Staff credits: published by the Associated Students of Tacoma Community College; editor John Wiley; associate editor Gene Achziger; sports editor Tom Allen; business/ad manager Tom Pantley; assistant editor Barb Burke; chief photographer Steve Bloom; reporters Mary Brennan, John Colombraro, Ray Curry, Roger Dahl, Sally Duggan, Larry Hennessy, Dolores Hill, Jeff Hochstrasser, Judith Johnson, Dann Tillinghast; photographers Mark Malloy, Alex Irwin; columnists Debra Campbell, John Carman; artist John Sambke; secretary Jean Seaburg; 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

1973-04-06

Contributor

Achziger, Gene
Associated Students of Tacoma Community College
Evans, Rolland
Wiley, John
Maze, Jean
Doten, Cheryl
Malloy, Mark
Hill, Dolores S.
Allen, Tom
Curry, Ray
Carman, John

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-19730406_CollegiateChallenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)