The Challenge - November 9, 1987

Title

The Challenge - November 9, 1987

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 24, number 3 and is twelve pages.

This issue contains stories on:
- Current campus construction projects;
- Recent visits to campus by state legislators and TCC community members asking for more funding;
- Financial aid resources;
- Radiologic technology program coordinator Royal Domingo being appointed president of the Western Intercollegiate Consortium in Education for Radiological Technology Programs (WICERT);
- English instructor Dorothy Gross;
- Assistant Dean for Continuing Education Tanya Brunke being elected to the board of directors of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE);
- A laser show at Marketeers;
- The upcoming men's basketball season;
- Women's volleyball coach Tracy Vigus;
- TCC athletics traveling to the Soviet Union (part two);
- A community colleges supplemental budget request under consideration at the state legislature.

Also includes:
- Opinion pieces on the campus layout, construction impacts on students, the need for student advocacy for TCC, attributes needed to get through life;
- Guest editorial from student president on an upcoming food drive;
- 'Student forum' section asking five students if restrictions should be placed on students with AIDS;
- Book review of IT by Stephen King;
- Restaurant review of Lessie's Southern Kitchen;
- Poetry and photographs;
- 'Counselor's Corner' column on dyslexia;
- Film review of The Sicilian;
- Music review of Sting album '...Nothing Like the Sun';
- A clippable music poll;
- Sports editorial on being a Denver Broncos fan in Washington;
- Part two of short story 'Guido Bonacelli, The Hit Man';
- Ads.

'On campus and off' section contains
- Campus news and upcoming event announcements including Counseling Center hours and services, cafeteria vending machines hours, a trip to New York to see Broadway shows, a spring travel abroad program in London (England), fall transfer information day, film screening of The Three Amigos, Annual Academic Progress Scholarships information, the student government food drive, a TCC version of the Dating Game, the Veteran's Day holiday, soccer games against Green River and Pierce, a student senate meeting, ping pong tournaments, a volleyball game against Centralia;
- Off campus events including a Def Leppard concert at the Tacoma Dome.

Staff credits: independent newspaper published by students of Tacoma Community College; editor in chief Bill Turner; arts and entertainment editor Ted Mills; features editor Dan Hansen; sports editor Larkin Campbell; photo editor CarlJon Goodwin; on/off campus Eric Wirsing; business manager Jackie Edwards; graphics designer Laura Clawson; reporters Rick Chisa, Mark Hallmark, Lori Sowell; photographers Joe Clarke, Jim Ruth; columnists Gordon Peterson, Bonnie Bennedson; typesetter Lisa Renee Rehn; 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

1987-11-09

Contributor

Hallmark, Mark

Goodwin, CarlJon

Hansen, Dan

Wirsing, Eric

Chisa, Rick

Hyzer, Mari

Sowell, Lori

Mills, Ted

Peterson, Gordon

Campbell, Larkin

Clarke, Joe

Bageant, T.E.

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-19871109_Challenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)