The Challenge - January 25, 1988

Title

The Challenge - January 25, 1988

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 24, number 5 and is twelve pages.

This issue contains stories on a Hepatitis A outbreak in Pierce County; the upcoming week-long celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.; an incident at the Transit Center resulting in arrests; the results of a nationwide poll of college students; the upcoming Tahoma Audubon Society Annual Banquet; college student deals at Disney World; computerization of library resources; winter and how it affects different people; student Loren Skaggs; TACID (Tacoma Area Coalition of Individuals with Disabilities); the Tacoma Dome; snowboarding; new golf coach Harold Bonnell and the TCC golf team; the International Student Organization (ISO) origami 'fold-a-thon' to fold cranes to send to Tacoma and sister city mayors.

Also includes a photo of campus construction; opinion pieces on student newspapers and a Supreme Court ruling allowing administrative censorship, unhealthy foods; guest editorial from the student president on the upcoming blood drive; 'Student forum' section asking five students if TCC textbooks are too expensive; a photo of the bookstore and announcement that the Challenge will investigate textbook prices in their next issue; humorous advice column; editorial on the new Challenge editorial team; comics; guest column on serigraph prints by Japanese artist Tetsure Sawada; film review of Empire of the Sun; sports trivia; men's and women's basketball stats, spring sports information; 'Counselor's Corner' column on nutrition; ads and classified ads.

'On campus and off' section with campus news and upcoming event announcements includes a blood drive, open submissions for Trillium literary magazine, job workshops at the Counseling Center, parenting and goal-setting workshops, a CISSC Subcommittee meeting, call to help the International Students Organization fold paper cranes, Senate meetings, a brown bag lecture by Georgia McDade on 'Blacks in Education'; off campus events and news include the Lakewood Players production of Bullshot Crummond, a Kronos Quartet concert at the Broadway Performance Hall, the Seattle Repertory Theatre production of Hunting Cockroaches, the beginning of the Pacific Northwest Ballet season, exhibits at the Tacoma Art Museum, auditions at the Tacoma Little Theatre for Dames at Sea, a concert by pianist Emanuel Ax at the University of Washington Meany Theatre.

Staff credits: published by the Associated Students of Tacoma Community College; editor in chief Lori Sowell; news editor Dan Hansen; features editor Eric Wirsing; sports editors Dan Hansen, Richard Dupraw; arts editor Gordon Peterson; entertainment editor Greg Kinyon, Gordon Peterson; on/off campus Greg Kinyon; photo editor Richard Dupraw; business manager Jackie Edwards; cartoonist Eric Wirsing; reporters Olga Fuste, Bryan Butler, Bill Turner; photographers James Allen, Todd Cheney, Tony Sole; columnists William W. Whitt, Eva Woodruff; typesetter Lisa Renee Rehn; 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

1988-01-25

Contributor

Fuste, Olga

Dupraw, Richard

Hansen, Dan

Turner, Bill

Hyzer, Mari

Sole, Tony

Kinyon, Greg

Wirsing, Eric

Peterson, Gordon

Allen, James

McHenry, Michael K.

Butler, Bryan

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-19880125_Challenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)