The Challenge - October 24, 1986

Title

The Challenge - October 24, 1986

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 23, number 2 and is twelve pages.

Content note: This issue contains mention of sexual assault on page 3.

This issue contains stories on asbestos removal on campus; the Honors Program not being offered in 1986/87 and potential changes to the program; TCC instructor and Tacoma City Councilman Jack Hyde; recent college athlete scandals and trials; the devaluation of the arts in school curriculum; the history of the TCC nature center; renovation of the gym; an upcoming student senate study of smoking on campus; Saudi Arabian students describing life at home; the Tacoma Art Museum exhibit of religious art from the Martin of Tours exhibition with contemporary regional art; the TCC Veteran's Affairs department; college campuses finding the bacteria that causes Legionnaires disease in their air conditioning systems; the men's soccer team; basketball coach Ron Billings.

Also includes photo of student with skateboard; 'Counselors Corner' column on self esteem; advice column by faculty member; editorials on the summit between US President Ronald Reagan and USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev in Iceland, the development of the TCC student center; syndicated political comics; letters to the editor responding to a previous editorial on Reagan, discussing the recent summit in Iceland and the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI); crossword puzzle; film review of Peggy Sue Got Married; call for Challenge staff; ads.

'On campus and off' section contains area news and events including a TCC ski trip to Austria, TCC workshops, the Pacific Lutheran University production of The Andersonville Trial, a concert by the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, a Tacoma Art Museum exhibit of the Martin of Tours Collection, the Tacoma Actors Guild production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a public TV program on C.S. Lewis and Joy Gresham, a TCC trip to Northwest Trek, a Celtic music concert by Philip and Pam Boulding, a children's production of Jack and the Beanstalk, a TCC Stephen King film festival, an Emerson Lake & Powell concert in Seattle, a Tacoma Concert Band performance, a TCC intramural table tennis tournament, the ACT (A Contemporary Theater) production of Little Shop of Horrors, a James Brown concert in Seattle, a classical piano concert by Malcolm Bilson, a concert by Michael O'Domhnail and Billy Oskay, a concert by violinist Pinchas Zukerman and pianist Marc Neikrug, a TCC advising tour of the University of Puget Sound, the Seattle Repertory Theater production of Richard III, a lecture by South African refugee and activist Dumisani Kumalo, a TCC coed volleyball tournament, lip sync program tryouts.

Staff credits: published by the Associated Students of Tacoma Community College; editor Joe Contris; arts editor Laurie McKay Nelson; photo editor Hank Church; sports editor Kevin Crossland; business manager Alisa Wilder; ad manager Brad Arleth; advisor R. Gilbert; reporters and photographers Brad Arleth, Kannha Bounchanh, Jane Knapper, Jeff Ofelt, James M. Oshiro, Rich Rasmussen, Marvin Reese, Debbie Snell, Bill Tucker, Troy Wohlfeil; typesetter Laurie McKay Nelson.

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

1986-10-24

Contributor

Snell, Debbie

Arleth, Brad

Contris, Joe

Clark, Diane

Oshiro, James

Whitt, William W.

Wohlfeil, Troy

Farler, Chris

Peterson, Gordon

Newman, Don

Church, Hank

Rasmussen, Rich

Knapper, Jane

Bounchanh, Kannha

Reese, Marvin

Crossland, Kevin

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-19861024_Challenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)