The Collegiate Challenge - November 2, 1979

Title

The Collegiate Challenge - November 2, 1979

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume XVI, number 5 and is eight pages.

This issue contains stories on a student government budget committee meeting to decide what to do with funds carried over from the previous year's budget; Dean of Students Dr. Richard Batdorf's thoughts on student engagement and retention; "The Open DOR" program (Drop-Out Retrievement) for high school drop-outs; increased enrollment at TCC; the Board of Trustees meeting, including approval of leasing a space in downtown Tacoma for the Educational Center; a performance by Rhinestone Rosie for a Life Long Learning Center Brown Bag Luncheon; the cross country team winning their first race in several years; the men's soccer team win against Everett; the golf team; a distance running program; Pierce County Sheriff candidate and acting sheriff Elwin Hart; Pierce County Sheriff candidate and retired Tacoma police chief Lyle Smith.

Also includes table of contents; comics and illustrations; editorials on capital punishment, biased news coverage against Palestinians and a history of their displacement; letters to the editor on the previous issue's editorial on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), requesting correspondents; "Veterans Corner" column on a social event at Ft. Steilacoom, deadlines, tuition reductions, and an expense calendar; ads and classified ads; Representative Norman Dicks; pop culture trivia quiz; factoids; review of the film ...And Justice for All; a photo of the men's baseball team at practice.

Announcements include sports officiating classes with TCC and the Western Washington Officials Association; the premiere of the TV production by drama instructor Chuck Cline "Too Proud to Live"; the Career Computer at the Career Information Center; club formation information and active groups; a Black Students Union lunch hour disco; guitarist Paul Chasman performing at the TCC Coffeehouse; women's varsity basketball tryouts.

Staff credits: editor in chief Ron Wilson; associate editor Candy Reece; photography director Al Meerscheidt; campus editor Debbie Payne; sports editor Marty Gordon; copy editors Marie Rice, Wendy Foster, Vivian Harris, Greg Nordlund; entertainment editor Vivian Lang; staff artist Leslie Rule; advisor Ila Zbaraschuk; reporters Reggie Carpenter, Wendy Foster, Marvin Jenkins, Kathy Olson, Pati Wilson, Peggy Punchak, Micki Nadeau, Keith Richardson; photographers Mike Hazelmyer, Nancee Dunbar, Leslie Rule, Julie Shearer; circulation manager Wendy Foster; advertising manager Janene Nadeau; feature writer Marie Rice; VA column John Scholer; student columns Anastasia Armourer, George Freeman; secretary to the editor Karie Kneedler.

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

1979-11-02

Contributor

Payne, Debbie

Nadeau, Luciann

Wilson, Ron

Iranian Student Association

Darneille, Janet

Miller, Ralph

Rice, Marie

Wilson, Pati

Nordlund, Greg

Small, Dan

Olson, Kathy

Gordon, Marty

Johnson, J. M.

Peterson, Scott

Tacoma News Tribune

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-19791102_CollegiateChallenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)