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Title
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The Collegiate Challenge - December 9, 1977
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Description
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Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 14, number 8 and is eight pages.
Content note: This issue contains use of outdated language relating to disability on page 3, and references incest on page 8.
This issue contains stories on a state legislature study showing TCC spends less on administration costs in relation to full-time students than most other state community colleges; open bids for campus construction; results of the Los Unidos turkey raffle; proposals for religious courses on the Old and New Testaments; allegations of reuse of plasticware in the cafeteria; the for-credit volunteer program at the YMCA teaching swimming to disabled children; Pacific Science Center's annual holiday carnival; International Student Organization (ISO) former president Danny Koffa; a course on the "energy problem"; departing Challenge staff members Jim Fleischmann and Marilyn Brown; men's basketball news; the bowling team taking second in a community college tournament; history instructor Dr. Yu-Yi Ho; enrollment figures; an upcoming conference on incest response and prevention.
Also includes table of contents; editorials on the Challenge having plenty of news but not enough money to publish it, the cafeteria; letters to the editor regarding religious classes, discussing Student Programs' handling of a recent event, thanking a friend, discussing the natural food vending machine proposal; editor's note correcting a name in the previous issue; guest editorial on the Bakke decision and its effects on affirmative action; Veterans' Corner column on the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Act; poetry; book reviews of Pyramid by John Hurd, Le Jardin du Monde by John Hurd; quotations; the previous issue's crossword solution; music review of Diana Ross album "Baby It's Me"; ads and classified ads; community college bowling tournament stats; men's basketball holiday schedule; group photo of the 1977-78 women's basketball team; intramural bowling stats; final examination schedule.
Announcements include the Pacific Lutheran University Christmas Festival concert; the formation of a drama group at the Afro-American Cultural Center; a Wisdom Marionette Theatre Christmas puppet show at the Puppet House; a National Choral Council Messiah "sign-in" at the Seattle Center Opera House; a film screening of The Exorcist; a TCC Vet's Club Christmas party and dance; availability of student ID cards; bookstore book buybacks.
Staff credits: Published by the Associated Students of Tacoma Community College; editor Jim Fleischmann; photography director Cran Wilkie; business manager Ben Smith; copy editor Marilyn Brown; sports editor Sam Warren; arts & entertainment Lorrie Carter; reporters Patty Brands, Marilyn L. Brown, Lorrie Carter, Kristie Davenport, Carl Davis, Bob Elliott, Kelly Gordon, Mitchell George, Steve Hunt, Frank Jones Jr., Rick Lewis, Bob Manuel, Pat McDaid, Yula Nadeau, Mary Osborn, Candy Paris, John Peterson, Ben Smith, Sam Warren, Jon Wesley; secretary Candy Paris; faculty advisor Rachel Bard; photographers Pat McDaid, Ben Smith, Cran Wilkie.
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Subject
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College student newspapers and periodicals
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Community colleges
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Creator
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Associated Students of Tacoma Community College
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Source
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Tacoma Community College Archives, Special Collections Library
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Publisher
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Tacoma Community College Archives
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Date
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1977-12-09
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Contributor
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Johnson, Jody
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Lewis, Rick
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Carter, Lorrie
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Smith, Ben
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Gordon, Kelly
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Wesley, Jon
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Elliott, Bob
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Goldtooth, Tom
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Hunt, Steve
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Hamack, Rich
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Brown, Marilyn L.
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Nadeau, Luciann Gill
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Sheppard, Gregory C.
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Peterson, John
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Warren, Sam
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Wilkie, Cran
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Rights
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Use is governed by Tacoma Community College's Creative Commons Copyright policy requiring attribution and share-alike intentions.
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Format
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PDF
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Language
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English
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Identifier
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TCCAL_CC-19771209_CollegiateChallenge
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Coverage
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Tacoma (Wash.)
