The Challenge - May 18, 1987

Title

The Challenge - May 18, 1987

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 23, number 11 and is sixteen pages.

This issue contains stories on a disciplinary hearing for students regarding alleged plagiarism; the service dog training program at Purdy Correction Center for Women; Illinois requiring foreign-born college instructors to pass an English test; a recent report of recommendations for the State Board for Community College Education; support and sympathy for food services manager 'Vee' Villahermosa after his family was in a serious accident; commuter students; recent changes to Washington state speed limits; Cambodian refugee student Tea Gov and his assault off-campus; the seven year anniversary of the Mount St Helens eruption; Assistant Dean of Continuing Education Tanya Brunke receiving an award from the Northwest Adult Education Association; the upcoming Tacoma Writers Conference, with keynote speakers Kenneth Gouldthorpe and Murray Morgan; fashion seminar 'Investment Dressing' by Nordstrom Personal Touch department; the Ebony Fashion Fair in Tacoma; the recent discovery of US Department of Education workers backdating documents; Gordon R. Peterson receiving a Pleneurethic Scholarship; lack of fan support for the track team; golf team member Steve George; recent arrests on college campuses of college athletes causing disturbances; recent issues of faculty pay on college campuses.

Also includes opinion pieces on the student disciplinary hearing, plagiarism; letters to the editor seeking advisors for the Parapsychology Club, thanking TCC for the recent blood drive's success; student government column on a new grading policy; poetry; a map of Point Defiance Park; film reviews of Garden of Stone, Extreme Prejudice, Evil Dead II; crossword puzzle; local concerts calendar; 'Whitt's End' humorous advice column; counseling column on wellness; sports editorials on the retirement of professional basketball player Julius Winfield Erving, being a sports nut; a photo of Point Defiance Park; announcement and entry form for a Chi Gamma sponsored Teacher of the Year Award; ads and classified ads.

'On Campus and Off' section contains TCC news and events including summer, fall, and evening student advising information, a visit by a Pacific Lutheran University representative, a dim sum cooking class, a high school student art show in the library, the Annual TCC Spring Celebration; regional news and events including opening dates for locations within Mt. Rainier National Park, the first annual Horse-O-Thon at Oakwood Arena, Seattle's Pike Place Market Festival '87, the Masters of the Universe Power Tour live at the Tacoma Dome, the Antique Sandwich Company Spring Folk Festival concerts, an album release party for Tim Noah at the Tacoma YWCA, Rape Awareness Week information, the Black Community Festival in Tacoma, the Chinook Center for the Performing Arts production of A Midsummer Night's Dream; TV programs on AIDS, money, and Alzheimer's disease.

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, Carl Goodwin, Dorothy Gordon, Tom Johanson, Marjorie McCraney, Gordon Peterson, Betty Singleton; columnists Chris Farler, Phil Griffin, Whitney Keyes, Sandy Plann, 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

1987-05-18

Contributor

Turner, Bill

Campbell, Larkin

Goodwin, CarlJon

Snell, Debbie

College Press Service

Farrison, Wesley C.

Farler, Chris

Bartlett, Irene R.

Meyers, Brian D.

Johanson, Tom

Mills, Ted

Plann, Sandy

Singleton, Betty

Small, Dan

Gordon, Dorothy

McCraney, Marjorie

Johanson, Susan

Knapper, Jane

Peterson, Gordon

Tacoma Community College Department of Information and Publications

Rosebud Releasing Corporation

Whitt, William W.

Skorupa, Susan

Griffin, Phil

Keyes, Whitney

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-19870518_Challenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)