The Challenge - May 10, 1995

Title

The Challenge - May 10, 1995

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 31, number 13 and is sixteen pages.

Content note: This issue contains a brief discussion of sexual assault and violence in the article on page 5.

This issue contains stories on:
- The student government election results;
- State budget cuts to the colleges;
- Engineering Program Coordinator Ken Gentili receiving a National Science Foundation grant;
- A meeting between TCC President Dr. Ray Needham and US President Bill Clinton regarding aerospace and logging industry layoffs, workforce training, financial aid;
- Challenge Advertising and Production Manager Grant C. Mason receiving a Washington Press Association award and a TCC Student Employee of the Year award;
- Application information for Eastern Washington University;
- TCC student Dennis Hedman and his work to pass state protections for troubled teens in honor of his murdered daughter Rebecca;
- Recent wins and losses by the men's baseball team;
- New men's soccer coach Todd Veenhuizen, women's soccer coach Randy Martin, and women's basketball coach Michelle Knoll;
- The need for more members on the women's golf team;
- The sole women's golf team member Jennifer Stapleton;
- The Washington State High School Alumni tournaments in basketball, baseball, soccer, and volleyball;
- TCC student and musician Dustin Lafferty and his band the Blues Junkies;
- Tacoma Earth Day celebrations;
- Faculty member Ken Gentili being named Region III coordinator for National Science Foundation grant-funded project 'The Two-Year College in the 21st Century';
- The lecture by paleoanthropologist Dr. Donald Johanson on the discovery of 'Lucy' and human origins;
- A presentation by Williams College mathematician Edward Burger;
- Running Start student Christine Cruz and her experiences as a journalist.

Campus news briefs include:
- Availability of blood pressure checks and nutrition analysis at National Nurses Week;
- A plant sale at the Biology department greenhouse;
- Math instructor Suzanna Butschun receiving an American Association of Women in Community Colleges excellence award;
- Health profession information at the Associated Students annual Health Fair;
- An upcoming student senate meeting;
- TCC President Dr. Ray Needham receiving an American Association of Community Colleges award;
- An International Student Services awards banquet.

Also includes:
- Wellness Center column on the SAVE '95 Conference (Substance Abuse and a Violent Environment);
- Ads and classified ads;
- 'Whirled News' world news commentary column on car safety, new weight loss drug fenfluramine;
- Security Beat section on campus security incidents;
- Campus ads and announcements for the Challenge, a call to support the baseball team, an Alpha Delta Omega National Honor Society used book and bake sale, a student senate meeting, a horseback riding trip, an International Student Organization treasure hunt;
- Out and About calendar of TCC, Tacoma, and area events;
- music reviews of new albums out on CD;
- List of films showing at area movie theaters;
- Book review of James Finn Garner's Politically Correct Bedtime Stories;
- Review of comedian Kermit Apio;
- List of area concerts;
- Counselor's Corner column on students with hidden disabilities;
- Crossword puzzle;
- Photo of a port-a-potty on campus due to water shutdowns for construction;
- Editorials on visiting the state capitol and attempting to speak to Senator Slade Gorton, campus parking lot security;
- Call for contributions to the Challenge's 'TCC Cultural Kaleidoscope' issue.

Staff credits: published by the Associated Students of Tacoma Community College; managing editor Amanda Burden; associate editors John McNama, Heather Tillinghast; copy editor Barbara Thomas; calendar editor Christine Cruz; photo editor Jennifer West; business/production manager Grant C. Mason; office manager Jeanette May; reporters Staci Alexander, Christine Cruz, Jared Denton, Veronica Kirchoff; advisor David Holman.

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

1995-05-10

Contributor

Burden, Amanda

West, Jennifer

Winton, Ann

Bender, Charrissa

Cruz, Christine

Thomas, Barbara

Tillinghast, Heather

Kirchoff, Veronica

McNama, John

Denton, Jared

Markham, Marie

Alexander, Staci

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-19950510_Challenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)