The Collegiate Challenge - October 31, 1988

Title

The Collegiate Challenge - October 31, 1988

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 25, number 2 and is twelve pages.

This issue contains stories on:
- Vending machine price increases;
- Student frustration with campus parking;
- Plans by the University of Washington (UW) to build a Tacoma campus and considering TCC undeveloped land;
- The TCC Candidates Fair;
- The Combined Fund Drive;
- The nursing program;
- The spring quarter in London program;
- Upcoming elections for the International Student Organization (ISO);
- The women's volleyball team losses to Grays Harbor, Centralia;
- The men's soccer team losses to Skagit Valley, Pierce, and win against Everett;
- Retired but still working librarian Lorraine Hildebrand;
- The Language Lab and funding issues;
- The Gourmet Cooking School in the Life Long Education Department;
- Job seminars at the Counseling Center;
- A concert by the TCC Chamber Orchestra.

Also includes:
- A US presidential voter guide from the National Student Campaign for Voter Registration;
- Editorials on the recent student Vice President of Finance election, campus vending machine prices, campus parking;
- 'Counselor's Corner' column with advice from the Advising Intern;
- Letters to the editor regarding the US presidential candidates, the cafeteria, the possible UW branch campus in Tacoma;
- Open letter from the student president regarding a visit to the YWCA School Project for Homeless Children;
- The men's soccer division standings;
- Sports editor on the Dodgers professional baseball team winning the World Series;
- Comics;
- Crossword puzzle, TCC trivia, word search;
- Ads and classified ads.

Campus ads and announcements include encouragement to vote, Transfer Information Day, a free lecture by Wolf Krause on 'The Rise of Nazism,' fall quarter intramural schedule, upcoming film screenings.

Staff credits: independent newspaper published by students of Tacoma Community College; editor in chief Gordon Peterson; managing editor Claudia Mekins; production editor Serena McKechnie; sports editor Fritz Riddle; business manager Lori Sowell; graphic designers Eric Wirsing, Chris Donahue; reporters Sydney Edelbrock, Maria Hall, Maggie Hamill, Susan Higgins, Cindy Marcoe, Serena McKechnie, Tracey Meyer, Jackie Squires, Eric Wirsing; columnist Peter Suhn; photographers Becky Aylor, Kristy Funkhauser, Sydney Edelbrock, Claudia Mekins, Maria Hall; ad reps Gordon Peterson, Serena McKechnie; typesetter Lisa Renee Rehn; advisor Eve Dumovich.

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

1988-10-31

Contributor

Squires, Jackie

Mekins, Claudia

National Student Campaign for Voter Registration

Hedman, Sherri

Lloyd, Jan

Larson, David

Johnston, Stan

Forrer, Kelli

Wirsing, Eric

Higgins, Susan

McKechnie, Serena Faith

Riddle, Fritz

Aylor, Becky

Hall, Maria

Meyer, T.

Marcoe, Cindy

Donahue, Chris

Edelbrock, Sydney Ann

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-19881031_CollegiateChallenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)