The Challenge - May 24, 1995

Title

The Challenge - May 24, 1995

Description

Student newspaper of the Tacoma Community College. This issue is numbered volume 31, number 14 and is sixteen pages.

This issue contains stories on:
- A building inspector being injured at the campus construction site;
- The Board of Trustees meeting, including discussion of tuition changes, student concerns about diversity on campus;
- A new bookstore price matching policy;
- The end of the baseball season with the team finishing third;
- Sole TCC women's golf player Jennifer Stapleton being recruited by the University of Washington (UW);
- Basketball player Lorenzo Rollins and golf player Jennifer Stapleton winning Student of the Year awards;
- A campus concert by reggae band The Groove;
- An art exhibit in the TCC Library by Latino artists.

Campus news briefs include:
- The TCC Native American Student Council hosting Native American Scholarship Fund recruiter Virginia Bell;
- A campus job fair;
- The upcoming reopening of the new bookstore;
- An oceanography educational cruise on Puget Sound;
- Upcoming events for the Environmental Lecture Series;
- Call for Faculty Excellence Award nominations.

Also includes:
- Wellness Center column on perception of alcohol use in Russia;
- Ads and classified ads;
- 'Whirled News' column on an Ebola outbreak in Zaire, colleges offering compensation to students who don't find a job after graduation;
- Out and About calendar of TCC, Tacoma, and area events;
- Photo of an intramural basketball game;
- Campus ads and announcements including an upcoming teen baseball tournament;
- Theater review of the Tacoma Actors Guild production of 'We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!';
- List of area concerts;
- List of films showing at area movie theaters;
- An upcoming concert by the TCC Singers and drama students;
- Letter to the editor responding to the previous issue's story on Slade Gorton;
- Crossword puzzle.

'Cultural Kaleidoscope' special issue content includes:
- An introduction to the special issue;
- Schedule for the President's Council on Diversity sponsored Cultural Kaleidoscope week;
- Cafeteria special menu;
- Editorials on life in Puerto Rico, Satanism, the lack of diversity on TV, Grunge as a reaction to American materialism, the need for tolerance in American culture;
- 'Student in the Street' asking four students how their heritage has benefited American culture;
- Overview of cultural student clubs including the Black Student Union, Black Pearls, and the International Student Organization (ISO);
- Perspectives on American culture by students from Darlene Rompogren's English as a Second Language (ESL) class;
- Students from Humanities 120 publishing a multicultural cookbook.

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, 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

1995-05-24

Contributor

Burden, Amanda

West, Jennifer

Denton, Jared

Khamilonova, Nelya

Perron, Carol

Thomas, Barbara

Cruz, Christine

Kirchoff, Veronica

Vuong, Ngoc

Masashi, Iwasaki

Mizuno, Yasuhiko

Chan, Stephen

Mok So-pik

Ochi, Kuniko

Takahashi, Shuho

Leung, Grace

Takahata, Kenichi

Shim, Hyoung Sun

Yokobori, Masato

Nguyen, Cuoong Van

Vorobets, Yuri

Ino, Tomi

Alexander, Staci

Kirmse, Bart

Wakefield, Richard

Tillinghast, Heather

Irina, Mikeladze

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-19950524_Challenge

Coverage

Tacoma (Wash.)