The Challenge - April 6, 1994

Title

The Challenge - April 6, 1994

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 30, number 11 and is twelve pages.

This issue contains stories on:
- The Board of Trustees meeting, including approval of tenure contracts and overturning a tenure committee recommendation to not give tenure to math faculty Robert Tan;
- Campus security, safety, and crime;
- Changes to the SPRUCE (SPace available to Respond to the Unemployed through College Education) program;
- Brian Short, son of TCC student Leah Short, and his karate practice and teaching;
- The men's golf team;
- The men's baseball team performance in a tournament in Idaho;
- A Tacoma rally to free indigenous activist Leonard Peltier;
- The International Student Organization (ISO) welcome party;
- The Human Services Focus breakfast meeting with former students, state representatives, and TCC administrators;
- The Board of Trustees approving a tuition refund policy revision;
- The student government and open applications for officer roles;
- The Board overturning the Tenure Committee's recommendation on Robert Tan.

Campus news briefs include:
- Upcoming Student Programs events,
- Auditions of Apollo Night,
- Late grades for an English class due to the hospitalization of instructor Patrick Towne,
- Curriculum Committee course changes,
- Construction of a new walkway near Building 3,
- A joint meeting between TCC and Clover Park Technical College Boards,
- Degree application deadlines.

Also includes:
- Wellness Center column on services, a new memory wall for students affected by drugs or alcohol, an upcoming spring conference;
- Ads and classified ads;
- Sports editorial shorts on Magic Johnson working with the L.A. Lakers, the Seattle SuperSonics, Mariners baseball player Ken Griffey, Jr., Nintendo sports games;
- Profiles on the seven teachers who earned tenure: Mike Flodin, Dennis Stokes, Chris Gilbert, Sylvia Unwin, Robert Tan, Phil Hunter, Jerad Zimmermann;
- Out and About calendar of TCC, Tacoma, and area events;
- Ad for a photojournalism open house at the library;
- Counselor's Corner column on decision-making;
- Dear Jane advice column;
- Music review of a concert by guitar duo Double Cookin' at TCC;
- Syndicated comics;
- Opinion piece on the approval of tenure for Robert Tan.

Staff credits: published by the Associated Students of Tacoma Community College; managing editor John McNama; copy editor Karen Sutton; calendar editor Grant C. Mason; campus news editor Heather Tillinghast; photography editor Amanda Miller; sports editor Josh Riggins; advertising manager Valerie Gross; office manager Mark Craypo; advisor David Holman; reporters Elke Van Cassel, Brooke Felton, Glenn Hurlburt, Bart Kirmse, Katherine Kolody, Carole Larsen, John Larson, Grant C. Mason, Craig Ridly, Melisse Swartwood, Heather Tillinghast; photographers Roseann Barnhill, Lisa Lane-Taylor, Amanda Miller, Ben Peterson.

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

1994-04-06

Contributor

Mason, Grant C.

Kolody, Katherine

McElroy, Gail

Tillinghast, Heather

Peterson, Ben

Kirmse, Bart

Barnhill, R.

Riggins, Josh

van Cassel, Elke

Miller, Amanda

Hurlburt, Glenn

Sargeant, Peggy

Lingwall, J. Andrew

Tribune Media Services

Tober, Jeff

Sutton, Karen

Bissenas, Thaddius

Larsen, Carole

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-19940406_Challenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)