The Collegiate Challenge - March 11, 1977

Title

The Collegiate Challenge - March 11, 1977

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 13 (actually volume 12), number 16 and is eight pages.

Content note: This issue contains a misogynistic comic on page 6.

This issue contains stories on student perspectives on the Equal Rights Amendment; Washington Federation of Teachers President Al Bribois speaking on the state needing to decide its higher education values; Board of Trustees news, including information on a joint grant by TCC and Fort Steilacoom Community College; the upcoming Spring Festival; the driest winter since 1929 having potential to cause an energy shortage; the High Higher Education Committee public hearings on tuition; the city, port, and county coalition Growth Policy Association; an upcoming Trustees Association of Community Colleges annual meeting; University of Puget Sound law students providing tax preparation assistance; organized thefts at community college campuses; a TCC Board and Tacoma School District No. 10 Board of Directors joint meeting; the Math Lab; issues with precedent set by outgoing Evergreen State College President Charles McCann's leave provisions; Puyallup tribe chair and activist Ramona Bennett speaking on indigenous issues as part of TCC Student Koalition of Indian Natives' (SKIN) "SKIN Days"; American Indian Movement (AIM) chair John Trudell speaking about incarcerated indigenous activist Leonard Peltier; the men's basketball team losing in the Northwest Community College Conference basketball tournament; legislative rejection of four project requests by the TCC Board; Broadway music Raisin touring in the Northwest; new Shakespeare courses in conjunction with National Shakespeare Company productions; the student senate considering a new school mascot; a bill on tuition waivers; Intiman Theatre Company season auditions.

Also includes table of contents; ads, including an ad stating that TCC "has no credibility with the community"; final examination schedule; "Crime on Campus" column; a hot buttered rum recipe; letters to the editor regarding various complaints about the previous issue (and editor response), asking for penpals, sharing information on veterans benefits; classified ads; comics; review of the book The Astral Journey by Herbert B. Greenhouse; "Of the Top of My Head" column on fake upcoming concerts; music reviews of a Peter Gabriel album, Joe McDonald album "Goodbye Blues," Fleetwood Mac album "Rumours," Charlie Mariano album "Helen Twelvetrees"; area concerts list.

Announcements include the upcoming book swap; apointment of Alan P. Vandervert and Dr. Barbara A. Wesley to the TCC Board; due dates for veterans attendance cards; a cooperative education institute by the Area Cooperative Education Development Center Consortium; a screening of the film The Producers; open applications for the Human Service Worker program.

Staff credits: Published by the Associated Students of Tacoma Community College; editor John Garletts; sports editor Mike Knighton; campus editor Dan Long; arts editor David Webster; photography director Neil Herman; reports Leslie Boone, Horace Burnley, Reginald Carpenter, Larry Cates, Diana Hibbs, Eleanor Hill, William Moorer, Michelle Shovlain, Benjamin Smith, Lila Lee Vigil, E. Scott Wellsandt, James O. Williams, Lorne Wood; photographers Larry Cates, Pat Hurley, Cran Wilkie, E. Scott Wellsandt; secretary Mari Mittelstead; advisor Rachel Bard.

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

1977-03-11

Contributor

Brown, Opal
Hill, Eleanor
Knauf, Betty
Stebelton, Perry Allan
Hurley, Pat
Burnley, Horace
Grandle, Steve
Knighton, Mike
Stiff, R.M.
Smith, Ben

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-19770311_CollegiateChallenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)