The Challenge - March 13, 1987

Title

The Challenge - March 13, 1987

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 23, number 8 and is twelve pages.

Content note: This issue contains discussion of abortion on page 3.

This issue contains stories on proposed changes to federal financial aid programs; places to visit for spring break; March of Dimes volunteer Robert Sorensen; a new class on Afro-American literature; the possibility of a performing band for basketball games; expectations that tuition increases will outpace inflation nationwide; the new TCC Art Guild student group; the Winter Choral Concert by the concert and swing choirs; the University of Alabama preventing a student from producing a play on campus and the student's suit against them; sports funding at TCC; the men's basketball team placing second in the state tournament, with many photos.

Also includes photos of Mount Rainier, the men's basketball game against Chemetka; 'Whitt's End' humorous advice column; letters to the editor responding to the previous issue's editorial on abortion and an editor's response to one; comics; calls for letters and opinions in the Challenge, submissions to the TCC Art Guild art sale, submissions to TCC literary magazine Trillium, Challenge staff; student government updates including recent purchase of a microwave for student use, campus suggestion boxes; 'Counselor's Corner' column on alcohol and the family; poetry and photography; editorial comparing campus entertainment at TCC and Pierce College; results of a student music poll; film review of Hoosiers; ads.

'On Campus and Off' section announcing campus events and news including classes and private lessons for keyboard, spring quarter registration information, the new TCC Art Guild, English instructor Georgia McDade passing her doctoral exam, a volunteer tutoring workshop for Tacoma Area Literacy Council (TALC); Tacoma events and news including a White Heart concert at Pacific Lutheran University, a Northwest VW Club car show and swap meet, a production of musical Can-Can at the Pantages Centre, the Marlboro Concert Series of country music at the Tacoma Dome, auditions for the Tacoma Little Theater production of Something's Afoot, a lecture on death and bereavement by Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, the Shrine Circus, the YWCA Woman of the Year award luncheon, 'Inner Space' event at the Point Defiance Aquarium; Seattle events and news including a Reilly and Maloney concert at the Museum of History and Industry, Dinosaur Day at the Burke Museum, comedian Howie Mandel at the Paramount Theatre, the Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival, a Temptations concert at the Paramount Theatre, the Emerald City Marathon.

Staff credits: published by the Associated Students of Tacoma Community College; news editor Troy Wohlfeil; arts editor Debbie Snell; features editor Jane Knapper; sports editor Bill Turner; photo editor Brad Hart; on/off campus Gerie Ventura; ad manager Jim Pickett; business manager Karen Pickett; reporters and photographers Kevin Crossland, Brad Hart, Linda Holt, Ted Mills, Jim Pickett, Sydney Smith, Tad Springer; typesetter Stephanie Beall; artist Brad Hart; advisor R. Gilbert.

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

1987-03-13

Contributor

Smith, Sydney

Pickett, Jim

Turner, Bill

Ventura, Gerie

Whitt, William W.

Buxton, Gayle

Price, Doug

Saul, Shannon

Farler, Chris

Meyers, Brian D.

Mills, Ted

Holt, Linda

Knapper, Jane

Wohlfeil, Troy

College Press Service

Acker, Kathy

Hart, Brad

Snell, Debbie

Springer, Tad

Peterson, Gordon

Crossland, Kevin

Small, Dan

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-19870313_Challenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)