The Challenge - April 20, 1987
- Title
- The Challenge - April 20, 1987
- Description
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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: published by the Associated 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
- Associated Students of 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
- Language
- English
- Identifier
- TCCAL_CC-19870420_Challenge
- Coverage
- Tacoma (Wash.)
Part of The Challenge - April 20, 1987