The Challenge - May 4, 1987

Title

The Challenge - May 4, 1987

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 23, number 10 and is sixteen pages.

Content note: This issue contains an article discussing child abuse on pages 3 and 15.

This issue contains stories on the maintenance crew petitioning for more staffing; a bomb threat to Building 5; the Challenge winning multiple college campus newspaper awards; national average faculty salaries and the gender gap in pay; a congressional report on student loans; open student government positions and their roles; Black men's experiences in America; counselor and instructor Dick Patterson; English and Humanities instructor Marlene Bosanko; night student programs; the upcoming Transfer Information Day; the average TCC student; student frustration with campus parking; Japanese nursing student Hiroko Osashi; the TCC Child Care Center; the Puget Sound Music Society Concert Band; a TCC art exhibit and sale; current and upcoming exhibits at the Tacoma Art Museum; the release of Beatles albums on CDs; student athletes traveling to the Soviet Union; Tacoma Tigers baseball at Cheney Stadium; the men's baseball team and recent games, with numerous photos; recent student newspaper editor firings across the country.

Also includes photos of the Tacoma Dome, Old City Hall, the Narrows Bridge, waterfront; opinion piece on campus parking; Challenge ad rates, letters policy; Student Programs announcement of Spud Week; student government column on student organizations; counseling column on child abuse; crossword puzzle; information and images for TCC International Film Festival screenings; music review of the Europe concert at the Paramount Theatre, U2 album The Joshua Tree; call for sponsors of student athletes traveling to the Soviet Union; 'Whitt's End' humorous advice column; ads and classified ads; University of Washington (UW) scholarship information.

'On Campus and Off' section contains Tacoma events and news including a call for English teaching volunteers for the Tacoma Area Literacy Council, Antique Sandwich Company Spring Folk Festival concerts, a Tacoma Youth Symphony concert, a Pantages Centre benefit with Gloria Vanderbilt, call for creative writing submissions to the Tacoma Writer's Club magazine Spindrift, a concert of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at Pacific Lutheran University, call for radio scripts for KUPS Radio Theater, Romance Writers of America meetings at the Tacoma Public Library; TCC events and news including a cooking seminar, a fashion show by Nordstrom and Student Programs, a free parenting workshop, a free job interview workshop, a film screening of 'White Water Rafting'; Seattle events and news including a Billy Idol concert at the Seattle Center Coliseum, the 5th Avenue Theater production of Arsenic and Old Lace, the UW production of Ironheart, a Jack Wagner concert at the Paramount Theatre, a Run DMC and Beastie Boys concert at the Seattle Center Coliseum; family entertainment at Enchanted Village Family Park, Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, the Historical Society Museum, Never Never Land, Snake Lake Nature Center, Seattle Children's Theater, the Evergreen State College Cinco de Mayo Festival, and the Seattle Aquarium.

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; columnists Dick Deyoe, Chris Farler, William W. Whitt; 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

1987-05-04

Contributor

Farrison, Wesley C.

Turner, Bill

Snell, Debbie

Deyoe, Dick

Ventura, Gerie

Cohen, Barbara J.

McCraney, Marjorie

Gordon, Dorothy M.

Johanson, Thomas J.

Mills, Ted

Campbell, Larkin

Knapper, Jane

Hart, Brad

College Press Service

Tacoma Community College Department of Information and Publications

Wohlfeil, Troy

Childs, J. Preston

Dupraw, Richard

Whitt, William W.

Goodwin, CarlJon

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-19870504_Challenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)