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Title
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The Challenge - November 23, 1987
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Description
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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.
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Subject
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College student newspapers and periodicals
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Community colleges
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Creator
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Associated Students of Tacoma Community College
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Source
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Tacoma Community College Archives, Special Collections Library
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Publisher
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Tacoma Community College Archives
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Date
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1987-11-23
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Contributor
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Turner, Bill
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Goodwin, CarlJon
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Hansen, Dan
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Sowell, Lori
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Cheney, Todd
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Hallmark, Mark
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Meeusen, Kelley L.
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Hyzer, Mari
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Wirsing, Eric
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Clarke, Joe
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Mills, Ted
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Chisa, Rick
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Clawson, Laura
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Smith, Carl
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Whitt, William W.
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Peterson, Gordon
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Campbell, Larkin
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Rights
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Use is governed by Tacoma Community College's Creative Commons Copyright policy requiring attribution and share-alike intentions.
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Format
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PDF
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Language
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English
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Identifier
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TCCAL_CC-19871123_Challenge
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Coverage
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Tacoma (Wash.)