The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 24, 1993, Image 4

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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
However, director John
McTiernan's efforts to paro
dy Schwarzenegger's
movies and also include a
meaningful storyline take
See 'Last Action'/Page 5
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See Idol/Page 5
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