The Collegiate Challenge - November 30, 1979

Title

The Collegiate Challenge - November 30, 1979

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume XVI, number 8 and is eight pages.

Content note: This issue contains discussion of suicide on page 1, and a sexist and fatphobic article on page 8.

This issue contains stories on the mythology of Titans; a new teleplay production by drama instructor Chuck Cline, "Hesitation Marks," on teen suicide; Miller Brewing Company Senior Vice President and Treasurer Thomas B. Shropshire speaking on the future of the business world at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Business Lecture; a poll of TCC students on who they would vote for US president; philanthropist Wayman Presley and his ideas for election controls and grassroots lobbying; inflation effects on TCC; Director of Labor Studies Bob Markholt and the labor studies program under the history department; the upcoming production of opera Amahl and the Night Visitors; a student protest regarding the occupation of the American Embassy in Iran and holding of hostages; the men's basketball team; a Jog-a-Thon fundraiser; a Sports Bulletin magazine poll of college students.

Also includes comics and illustrations; table of contents; editorial on leaving the editorship; letters to the editor supporting a previous issue's article on the Child Care Center, responding to the slogan "America: Love It or Leave It," describing being misidentified as Iranian and told to "go home", expressing interest in creating a Foreign Student Volunteer Committee, expressing interest in learning from foreign student exchange; ads and classified ads; final examination schedule; factoids; music review of the Fleetwood Mac album "Tusk"; "Tell it to the Duchess" column on the Human Service Worker program; a sexist and fatphobia article on "food addiction."

Announcements include cancellation of the lecture by ABC Science Editor Jules Bergman; editor's notice of some content omissions in the issue; thanks to people who assisted with the faculty art exhibit; winter quarter schedules in TCC offices; winter quarter book availability in the book store; availability of Cooperative Education credit to veterans; TCC Annual Snowflake Festival, dinner, and dance; a faculty and staff brown bag; Diane Lavore (Kawennakaas) speaking on "The Oppression of Native People"; comedian Bill Alexander performing "Is There Life After College?" at the University of Puget Sound; Mel Washington and his jazz trio performing at the Coffeehouse; a performance of "The Brownsville Raid" by Charles Fuller; a library Christmas trivia contest; Intercontinental Press Inprecor editorial staff member Gerry Foley speaking on Iran; the men's basketball team winning against Olympic; varsity tennis information.

Staff credits: editor in chief Ron Wilson; 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, Scott Peterson; 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

1979-11-30

Contributor

Rule, Les

Nadeau, Luciann Gill

Hazelmyer, Mike

Kuntz, Stan

Richardson, Keith

Beck, Caryn

Peterson, Scott

Lang, Vivian

Armourer, Anastasia A.

Scholer, John

Meerscheidt, Albert

Jenkins, Marv

Western Graphics Corporation

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-19791130_CollegiateChallenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)