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Page 4 The Battalion Thursday, June 24,11 By JENNIFER SALCE The Battalion Amy Shafer, a sophomore at Aldine High School in Houston, learns how to create a yearbook layout at a communications workshop STACY RYAN/The Battalion held at Texas A&M this week. The workshop was sponsored bv the Houston office of school yearbook pubfisher Taylor Publishing Company. A&M hosts workshop for young journalists Texas high school and junior high students arrived at Texas A&M on Monday with moti vation and creative ideas for their yearbook knowing that they were going to "take it back” with them to their schools. "Take it back" was the theme for the Taylor Publishing Co. communications workshop that took place this week. Educational trainer and former Texas A&M student Tom Cawthra said the conference serves to motivate young journalists. "The workshop is a great place for the stu dents to learn how to start building yearbook style creativity and get excited about their yearbook," he said. Cawthra said in the beginning yearbook ses sion they teach basic journalism. He said it covers theme development, cover ideas, page layouts, special designs, photography, crop ping, ad design and caption writing. "Our goal as educational trainers is to teach them journalism, drill them to have uniqueness and creativity in their yearbooks and get them See Year book/Page 5 Junction Five-O-Five Non-profit agency trains and finds jobs for mentally, physically challenged individuals By MARGARET CLAUGHTON The Battalion To most people. Junction Five-O- Five is just the recycling center located at 4410 College Main, but there's much more to this non-profit agency than alu minum cans. Junction Five-O-Five trains individu als with both physical and mental dis abilities for employment and places them in secure jobs throughout the community. "In terms of total revenue, the recy cling center is one-twentieth of the whole operation," said Paul Fagan, ex ecutive director of Junction Five-O-Five. Individuals are referred to the agency through the Texas Rehabilita tion Commission, the Texas Commis sion for the Blind, the Bryan and Col lege Station public school system and MF1MR Authority Brazos Valley. Once introduced to Junction Five-O- Five, individuals are evaluated and then placed in a suitable job with a community employer. Evaluation enables the agency to se lect a job most suited to the abilities of the individual. It begins with an initial interview assessing the individuals physical abilities as well as his or her personality and aptitudes. The individ ual is then asked what sort of job he or she would like. "Some of these people have been so sheltered, they don't know they have the right to have choices," Fagan said. The agency then compiles a gross profile including a diagnostic evalua tion, school information, and psycho logical data. Afterwards, the individual is placed in an actual job situation. This enables the agency to observe each indi vidual's stamina, how well he or she works with others, and their response to supervision. "The whole process is very individu alized," Fagan said. Using the evaluation results, the agency matches the individual with the most suitable job available. Job coaches work side-by-side with the individual throughout the job train ing. Once the employer is satisfied with the trainees performance, the job coach withdraws. The job coach goes through the com plete training of the chosen job prior to the individuals training. He or she then knows the job and can help the employ er train the disabled individual more ef fectively. The coaches training is paid by Junction Five-O-Five and costs the employer nothing. By training people with disabilities to work. Junction Five-O-Five enables the individuals to improve their quality of life. "We help people help themselves," said John Tammela, employment spe cialist for Junction Five-O-Five. "This is definitely the most rewarding job I've ever had." Tammela said although the individ uals may not be the fastest employees. they are dedicated and productive. "The number one ingredient for suc cess is the. attitude to want to work," Tammela said. Individuals are placed in jobs from a variety of area employers ranging any where from Cafe Excel to the local fire department. The number of individuals placed by Junction Five-O-Five averages 28 a year. However, last year 35 individuals were placed. This year the number of place ments is expected to double. Junction Five-O-Five began in 1982 as Geranium Junction, a retail garden center employing disabled individuals. Marsy Clarke, a concerned mother of a disabled child, started the operation in efforts to give severely disabled people a place in the community. In 1987, Five-O-Five Personnel Ser vices began placing disabled people in jobs throughout the community. The two organizations merged in 1991 and became Junction Five-O-Five. STACY RYAN/The BstH Gary Webb, 11 year veteran of Junction Five-( Five, and Eddie Lambrecht (left) sort plastic bolt: at the recycling center located at 4410 Cole Main. Junction Five-O-Five started in 1982. , ■ i |iliin m slip lii a T By JACQUELINE AYOTTE The Battalion "What's Love Got To Do With It" Starring Angela Bassett and Lau rence Fishburne Directed by Brian Gibson Rated R Starts Friday at Post Oak III The music in "What's Love Got To Do With It" will rock you, Tina's story will break you, and Angela Bassett's perfor mance will amaze you. She's got Tina's muscular arms, that sexy smile, and those legs. Bassett simply plays Tina to a 'T'. From the time Tina was Anna Mae, abandoned at a young age and raised by her grandmother. • < A lono distance love-affair Seattle’ gives plenty of wit By JACQUELINE AYOTTE The Battalion "Sleepless in Seattle" Starring Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks and Ross Malinger Directed by Nora Ephron Rated PG Starts Friday at Schul- man 6 tie" is one heck of a love story. The only problem is that the two star-crossed lovers, Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), and Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks), never even meet until the final scene. Unf ortuna tely, what makes this movie so intriguing Meg Ryan (top), 'Sleepless in Seat- See "Seattle'/Page 5 Tom Hanks (right) and Ross Malinger star in the romantic comedy, "Sleepless In Seattle." •••• See Turner/Page 5 Angela Bassett stars as legendary rock 'n' roll singer Tina Turner in "What's Love Got To Do With It." ‘Last Action Hero’ falters in self-parody Schwarzenegger laughs by himself By JOHN BAYLESS The Battalion Plugging into Cyberpunk subculture Idol releases sci-fi theme album "The Last Action Hero" StarrinE Arnold Schwarzenegger and Austin O'Brien Directed by John McTiernan Rated PG Playing at Cinema III By JOHN BAYLESS The Battalion >erpui Billy Idol Rock Chrysalis/ERG Idol "Cyberpunk" is one of the best theme albums I've heard produced in a long time. However, not every Billy Idol fan will like it. While there are some stylistic ties with his earlier albums. Cy berpunk is almost totally different from Idol's oth er work. Idol strives to fuse his music with the concept of "cyberpunk" science fic tion - a gritty future un derworld envisioned by writers like William Gib son. Indeed, one of the songs on the album. Arnold Schwarzenegger stumbles over his own feet in this attempt at self-paro dy, and the result may be a resounding thud at the box office. "The Last Action Hero" is a fairly good movie. Unfor tunately, it's facing some ex tremely stiff competition. It isn't a film designed to face off against a production like "Jurassic Park." It is Schwarzenegger's chance to laugh at himself with some of the most unbe lievable action scenes ever. "The Last Action Hero" spoofs action films in gener al, and Schwarzenegger's previous efforts in particu lar. 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