The Challenge - March 7, 1988

Title

The Challenge - March 7, 1988

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 24, number 8 and is twelve pages.

This issue contains stories on:
- The possible closure of the home health care specialist program;
- The TCC Pie Eating Contest;
- The expelling of three international students;
- The state considering a child care policy;
- Student government news, including passage of club budgets and bylaws revisions;
- The state Combined Fund Drive contributing $1.8 million to charities;
- A study on background music for studying;
- English instructor and photographer Paul Clee and his photographs of Mexico;
- Student and International Student Organization president Mohammed Zamzami;
- The TCC Art Guild event, with photo collage;
- Bizarre part time jobs;
- The history of cuts to the Athletic Department and how to revive sports clubs.

Also includes:
- Photo of students enjoying the sun on campus;
- Editorials on campus newspapers, 'fluff' content in media, pranks;
- Letters to the editor encouraging the government and individuals to support AIDS research and charity, praising a Student Service Department secretary;
- 'Student Forum' section asking five students for suggestions for future Challenge issues;
- Horoscopes;
- Comics;
- Film review of Frantic;
- Sports editorial on the Winter Olympics;
- 'Counselor's Corner' column on eating disorders;
- Scholarship information and deadlines;
- Ads and classified ads.

'On campus and off' section contains:
- Campus news and upcoming event announcements includes a tax shelter seminar, a student senate meeting, availability of coupon books for students;
- Off campus news and events including a Marilyn Monroe Night on KCT9 TV, Advising Center tours of Washington State University and Central Washington University, the 44th Annual Nile Shrine Circus, a KISS and Anthrax concert at the Seattle Opera Coliseum, a John Cougar Mellencamp concert at the Seattle Center Coliseum, an Echo and the Bunnymen concert at Paramount Theater.

Staff credits: independent newspaper published by students of Tacoma Community College; editor in chief Lori Sowell; features editor Eric Wirsing; sports editor Bryan Butler; 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; graphics consultant Bill Turner; ad manager Dennis Hannan; reporters Olga Fuste, Bill Turner; photographers James Allen, Tony Sole; columnists William W. Whitt, Kay Morgan; 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

1988-03-07

Contributor

Fuste, Olga

Sole, Tony

Turner, Bill

Sowell, Lori

deFazio, Leonard, Jr.

Loring, Ida

Kinyon, Gregory

Whitt, William W.

Wirsing, Eric

Butler, Bryan

Clee, Paul

Dupraw, Richard

Peterson, Gordon

Morgan, Kay

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-19880307_Challenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)