The Challenge - November 23, 1987

Title

The Challenge - November 23, 1987

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 24, number 4 and is twelve pages.

This issue contains stories on TCC being potentially affected by a new federal student aid sanction program based on students' loan default rate; recent visits to TCC by state legislators; left-handed students petitioning for appropriate classroom desks; increased freshman enrollment; the deaths of Western Washington administrators and a pilot in a plane crash; new Higher Education Coordinating Board and community college boards appointees by Governor Booth Gardner; upcoming cafeteria and student lounge construction; unique achievements of counselor Dick Patterson, library associate Lorraine Hildebrand, and geology instructor Jack Hyde; the purpose of the Challenge newspaper; drama and music instructor Gwen Overland; student Thara Nelson; alcoholism and its effects on family; the student government food drive; the men's soccer season; gym manager and bodybuilder Dave Patterson.

Also includes a name spelling correction to the previous issue; opinion pieces on discrimination against left-handed students, the need for students to communicate with their teachers; letter to the editor thanking the custodial crew for finding lost items; guest editorial by student president on the new Student Volunteer Center; 'Student forum' section asking five students if classes should have ambidextrous desks; a ghost story; restaurant review of Casa Garcia; humorous advice column; film review of Suspect; music review of George Harrison album 'Cloud Nine'; book review of Andrew Offut novel Shadowspawn; sports editorial on 'the game of love'; a photo of Jeff Larson at basketball practice; graphics and illustrations; ads.

'On campus and off' section with campus news and upcoming event announcements includes Counseling Center hours and services, a spring travel abroad program in London (England), cafeteria vending machines hours, auditions for the winter production of The Rimers of Eldritch, inclement weather hotline information, a holiday choral concert with the Concert and Swing Choirs, Thanksgiving closures, an arts and crafts fair, finals week schedule, men's basketball games against Everett and Wenatchee, a ski trip to Crystal Mountain, women's basketball games against Olympic and Edmonds, the student government food drive, recreational basketball, a student senate meeting; off campus events and news including holiday hours at the Point Defiance Aquarium, the Cornish Theater production of Vigilantes, a Def Leppard concert at the Tacoma Dome, student and faculty choreographic works at the University of Washington Meany Hall.

Staff credits: published by the Associated 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, Fred Garvin; photographers Joe Clarke, Jim Ruth, Todd Cheney; columnists Gordon Peterson, Bonnie Bennedson; advisor R. Gilbert; typesetter Lisa Renee Rehn.

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

1987-11-23

Contributor

Turner, Bill

Goodwin, CarlJon

Hansen, Dan

Sowell, Lori

Cheney, Todd

Hallmark, Mark

Meeusen, Kelley L.

Hyzer, Mari

Wirsing, Eric

Clarke, Joe

Mills, Ted

Chisa, Rick

Clawson, Laura

Smith, Carl

Whitt, William W.

Peterson, Gordon

Campbell, Larkin

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-19871123_Challenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)