The Challenge - June 1, 1987

Title

The Challenge - June 1, 1987

Description

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: 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, 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

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

PDF

Language

English

Identifier

TCCAL_CC-19870601_Challenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)