The Challenge - June 1, 1987
- Title
- The Challenge - June 1, 1987
- Description
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Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 23, number 12 and is sixteen pages.
This issue contains stories on a new expanded grading system; updates on the disciplinary hearing for students regarding alleged plagiarism; new student government officers; a staff vs students softball game; award recipients at the Student Awards Banquet; annual tuition waivers awarded to high school seniors; the Challenge winning a Washington Press Association award; summer jobs for students without work-study; student Eric Featherstone raising money for a treatment for his Friedrich's Ataxia neurological disorder; the retirement of faculty members Carolyn Simonson, Dick Giroux, Lorraine Stephan, and Ruth Zelenak; geology instructor Jack Hyde's summer geological excursion course; the Administration of Justice program; scholarships and financial aid; TCC campus grounds and the maintenance crew; Point Defiance Park; Cambodian refugee student Tea Gov (a continuation from the previous issue); an upcoming TCC Swing and Concert choirs concert; the women's softball team taking second in the division, with numerous photos; campus weight training facilities; spring sports in review, with highlights from softball, baseball, track, golf, and tennis; the annual athletic awards; a Seattle charity being sued for making untrue statements about their benefit event.
Also includes photo of the flags on campus; opinion pieces on Memorial Day, the end of the academic year for Challenge staff; letters to the editor on retiring, criticizing sports coverage, congratulating the Challenge for their recent awards; student government column on accomplishments of the academic year; student's summer plans;photos of the Challenge staff; film review of Raising Arizona; book reviews for summer reading; poetry; music review of the Billy Idol concert at the Seattle Center Coliseum; crossword puzzle; 'Whitt's End' humorous advice column; sports editorials on professional basketball, Northwest sports; 'Counselor's Corner' column on change; ads.
'On Campus and Off' section - handwritten in this issue - contains news and events including the Puyallup Fair concerts, a lecture by sex educator Dr RUth Westheimer at the Seattle Opera House, Tacoma Actors Guild auditions, a Beastie Boys and Run DMC concert at the Seattle Center Arena, the world premiere of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by Pacific Northwest Ballet, a Carson Cole and R.U.4. at the Poulsbo Community Auditorium, a benefit performance of Cats for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, an American Heart Association benefit of a 'Heartthrob' date auction.
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, Carl Goodwin, Dorothy Gordon, Tom Johanson, Marjorie McCraney, Gordon Peterson, Betty Singleton; columnists Kathy Acker, Chris Farler, 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
- 1987-06-01
- Contributor
- Turner, Bill
- Goodwin, CarlJon
- Snell, Debbie
- Giroux, Richard W.
- Kram, Margaret
- Malyon, Harland
- Farler, Chris
- Ventura, Gerie
- Mills, Ted
- Staggers, Julie
- Johanson, Thomas
- Farrison, Wesley C.
- McCraney, Marjorie
- Singleton, Betty
- Gordon, Dorothy M.
- Plann, Sandy
- Peterson, Gordon
- Knapper, Jane
- Campbell, Larkin
- College Press Service
- Wohlfeil, Troy
- Tacoma Community College Department of Information and Publications
- Whitt, William W.
- Acker, Kathy
- 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-19870601_Challenge
- Coverage
- Tacoma (Wash.)
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