The Challenge - April 20, 1987

Title

The Challenge - April 20, 1987

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 23, number 9 and is twelve pages.

This issue contains stories on:
- Institute for Black Research President Sathasivan Cooper speaking on South African apartheid;
- The proposed 1987-1988 student and activities budget being significantly lower;
- Math instructor Suzanne Butschun;
- Vietnamese students Minh Dang and Minh Luong;
- An Arbor Day event at the TACID (Tacoma Area Coalition for Individuals with Disabilities) Center;
- Parents who are also students;
- Progress on the new student center;
- New Minority Achievement Program Scholarships at Western Washington University;
- A photographic folk art exhibit on the personification of Liberty in the TCC library;
- A new drama class by instructor Gwen Overland;
- Spring movie releases;
- The upcoming Art Guild art display and sale;
- The golf team and performance at the TCC Invitational Golf Tournament;
- The women's tennis team and recent matches;
- The women's softball team's recent wins and prospects for the championship;
- The track team.

Also includes:
- Photo of flowers on campus;
- Opinion piece on student advising;
- Letters to the editor responding to a previous letter and promoting the TCC Parapsychology Club, discussing student to teacher ratios in Washington state classrooms;
- Challenge letters policy;
- Student government column on places to find information about campus activities;
- Announcements of a campus blood drive, student government open positions, a clothing drive;
- Corrections regarding potentially misleading article titles in the previous issue;
- 'Whitt's End' humorous advice column;
- Campus photos and creative writing;
- Crossword puzzle;
- Film review of Lethal Weapon;
- Illustrations;
- Sports editorial on the Seattle Mariners professional baseball team;
- Ads and classified ads.

'On Campus and Off' section includes:
- TCC events and news including a ping pong tournament, a film screening of About Last Night, a Chamber Orchestra concert, a Swing Choir concert, a hiking trip to Gobbler's Knob at Mount Rainier, a Counseling Center workshop, work-study job openings, call for TCC team participants for the March of Dimes, a traditional Italian cooking course, an Institute for Business and Industry seminar on humor in the workplace, music instructor Gwen Overland starring in the Tacoma Little Theater production of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, opportunity to submit comedy writing to comedian Jimmie Walker;
- Tacoma events and news including 'The Camera, The Zoo and You' Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium photography event, the Ebony Fashion Fair at the Tacoma Done Convention Center, a quilting exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum, a University of Puget Sound Women's League Flea Market, flower displays at the Seymour Botanical Conservatory;
- Seattle events and news including bone marrow transplant support volunteer orientation at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, a Juilliard String Quarter concert at the University of Washington (UW), a production of play Little Eyolf at UW, the USA/USSR Goodwill Tour at UW, chorus auditions for the Seattle Opera.

Staff credits: independent newspaper published by students of Tacoma Community College; editor Debbie Snell; news editor Bill Turner; arts editor Jane Knapper; features editor Ted Mills; sports editor Troy Wohlfeil; photo editor Wesley Farrison; on/off campus Gerie Ventura; ad manager Marti Lambert; business manager Marti Lambert; reporters and photographers Larkin Campbell, Barbara Cohen, Richard Dupraw, Carl Goodwin, Dorothy Gordon, Tom Johanson, Marjorie McCraney, Gordon Peterson, Betty Singleton; typesetter Gerie Ventura; artist Marjorie McCraney; advisor R. Gilbert.

Subject

College student newspapers and periodicals

Community colleges

Creator

Tacoma Community College

Source

Tacoma Community College Archives, Special Collections Library

Publisher

Tacoma Community College Archives

Date

1987-04-20

Contributor

Turner, Bill

Goodwin, CarlJon

Snell, Debbie

Ventura, Gerie

Cohen, Barbara J.

Bartlett, Irene R.

Farler, Chris

Gaspard, Marcus S.

Myers, Brian D.

Campbell, Larkin

Farrison, Wesley C.

Mills, Ted

Gordon, Dorothy M.

Singleton, Betty

Whitt, William W.

Knapper, Jane

McCraney, Marjorie

Tacoma Community College Department of Information and Publications

Peterson, Gordon

Johanson, Thomas

Wohlfeil, Troy

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-19870420_Challenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)