c L&ywfI”t8 Wghllno Headlines... ............................. 2 Thundmwmd8..........*................. i........... 4 C@ttbddd............................................... 8 hb4 4 Thunder word Arts & Entwtalnnnnt ........................... 10 \ Volume 19, Number 7 Highline Community Collage, Midway, W-hlngton February 8,1980 ........................................................ 14 Campus Work Study jobs, funds go unused Highline Community College’sWork “This isnot unique among cornmuni- but don’t qualifyfor the program, CA, King County Parks and the city of Study program could be cut because ty colleges,” Hilliard noted of the according to Hilfiard. Seattle current allocations are not being used problem of filling more Work Study But if a student IS eligible, “We try In the State Work Study Program, a up, explained Financial Aid Counselor jobs, and therefore using more of the very hard to place them in a job,” she student can wkalmost anywhere, Billie Hilliard. available funds. stated. “Except for a very few cases, except with church or political organi- “The last couple of years we have One reason cited by Hilliard for not we do.” zations, Hilliard said. had extra money, because we’re not placing more students in the available The system for distributing the filling allour jobs,” she said. jobs is that they can often find better To qualify forthe program, a student Work Study funds works,she said, but The FederalGovernment could look paying jobs off campus. Also, campus must maintain 12 credits at a minimum simply not alleligible students take the at this and cut their funding to more work hours are not always compatible 2.00 grade point average and show jobs. closely match what the school hasbeen with student schedules. sufficient financial need as deter- “If all the studentswho qualified using, Hilliard said. Federal backing mined by the CollegeScholarship came in, we wouldjust about fill all our accounts for 80 per cent of the Work Inaddition, some studentswho could Service. jobs,” Hilliard estimated. Study funds; HCC resources provide be eligible for financial aid and Work Not all College Work Study jobs are All students are urged by Hilliard to the remaining 20 per cent for the Study don’t apply for the funds. Some on campus, someare provided by non- check their eligibilityfor assistance in program. students would like the campus jobs, profit organizations such as the YM- the Financial Aid Office in Bldg. 6. HCC students view blind experience by Roger Ward Brown, with her golden retriever Rob; demonstrated how a Seeing Eye Most of us will never know whatit is dog works toexpand its master’s like to function in a world without mobility. Shenoted that dogguides sight, but a group of students andstaff should not be touched, fed,or spoken to fromHighline College experienced in public. The dog wouldbecome some of the problems thatare encoun- distracted and not be able tG perform tered by the visually disabled. its job. On Wednesday, Jan. 30. the special studies class in Hotel-Restaurant man- Rob, who cost some $8,000 to train, agement examineda number of techni- was very calm during the taping and ques used by blind customers in the seemed content to sleep through most various hospitality industries. of it. Dog guides are well behaved and by Stan Briller and Carolyn Brown, two law must be allowed into publicac- speakers from CommunityServices comodations. Restaurants, hotels, for the Blind gave presentations that apartments. and stores .cannot refusp were taped in the color TV studio. admittance or service to a blind person CSBwas setup fifteen years ago because they have their dog with them. under the auspices of the United Way. ! Ned Brodsky-Porges, director of the Brown, who was a teacher when she Hotel-Restaurant program at HCC, became blind five years ago, stressed hostedthe taping session. It will be the need for more accessibility for the edited and shown to classesin hospital- handicapped in the varioushospitality ity oriented fields. Brodsky-Porges industries. People who work in these sees a growing community interest in fields, according to Brown, need to the problems of the handicapped citi- learn how to handle the handicapped zen. Here at Highline the elevator customer in order to better serve buttons are transcribed in Braille, them. local businesses are also improving Briller, the executive director of the their facilities. CSB, described the role of his agency as being twofold. First, it provides The seminar included: a slide pre- direct services for the blind to help sentation, a chance to experience dif- I them adjust to their handicap. These ferent types of blindness with the use services include: transcribing litera- of sensitizing goggles, a look at Braille ture into Braille, supplying assistance menusbeing used in many area re- in finding housing, social services, and staurants and a demonstration of how job and mobility training. to accompanya blind person in public. Secondly, it is involved in communi- Blind people are individuals who ty education to openup the outside want to be treated like anybody else. world to the visually disabled person. As Brown stated,“Restaurant emp- A piece of machinery takes a breather from campus renovation. The job at hand Blind people can and do contribute to loyees should treat us as they would entails new accommodations for Highiine’s handicapped students and faculty. society in a working as well social any other diner.” staff photo by Leland Hilbum environment, according to Briller. Cont. on page 2 h HCEA to lobbv for unused sick leave pay # I /- -h cometo work,” stated Dr. Ed Com- teachers weren’t included in it, Even though Command wouldlike to ” by Tim Kelly I mand, HCC vice president. “It looked like we weren’t doing our see the entire bill abolished, he does During the current legislative ses- Because Highline has a very good job,” Brown commented. “This year feel that it should co‘ver all employees sion in Olympia, the Highline College employee attendance rate, Command our lobbying effort is to include equally. Education Association plans to lobby said that the program will cost the teachers.” ! for anamendment to a bill which school more money than it would save At present, Brown said instructors compensates stateemployees, other through better attendance. are almost encouraged to be sick and I than teachers, for unused sick leave. In a report made to the HCC Board of take advantage of their present sick I “We have an inequity inthe system,” Trustees. by Jim Sharpe,business leave benefits. I’ said HCEA President Dave Brown. manager, it was estimated that the cost Althoughthe bill is intended to “Other state employees initiated the of the bill to the collegewould be increase attendance,Command ex- bill.” $7,500. The report went on to say that plained how it too encourages absen- When the bill was going through the the state’s community colleges could teeism. The maximumnumber of sick legislative process, a motion was made have an annual liability of more than leave days that can be accrued is 160. to exclude teachers, Brown explained, $5OO,oQo for the pay-back program. - In an advisory opinion from the state because the legislature saw how much The bill , besides the yearly pay- attorney general’s office, it was point- it would cost to cover teachers. back, also renumsratee retiring emp ed out that employees could not earn loyees for all accrued sick leave at the more than 160 sick leave days, so, once As set up, the bill compenutes atate same one for four ratio. they had, they couldn’t earn any to be employees for one fourtb of unwed These are the benefits that the turned in for the pay-back. sick~eaveaptaforvQyroil~~nrr- HCEA along with other community This essentially penalize8 emp- don per year. To be eligible for tlk college faculty groups willbelobbying loyees who have had Bodattendance money, an employee mart have ac- for this year. throughthe years, according to crrrsdaminimtund60d.prolakk They have waited until now, Brown command. lave. eaid, buss they didn’t want to lobby “ItnnmboutthattheMU~ “The idea WU toencouragepaople to againstthe~bill8implybscsusc mrne people to take time off;’bc, aaid. t I.””.... .. ..... .- ... C .. .- . ...... ... e c \ c m Special Library rooms to close Faculty Reading by Linda Pollinger go into the mom because it is already being occupied. The closing of some of the special There has alsobeen some abuse done t collection rooms on the fourth floor of to the moms, which is a factor in the Room relocated the Highline College library has been closing of them. proposed by Keith Harker,head libra- “The closing of the special collection W rian. rooms will save a lotof trouble for the The Faculty Reading Room, previ- M Thereare eight special collection librarians suchas maintaining the ously located on the fifth floor of the rooms at the present time which are rooms and keeping track of a separate Highline College Library, has been S assignedto certain curriculum areas card catalogue for these books.” said reopened in room 309, on the third a, suchas geology, engineering, and McFarland. floor of the library. S- career colmseling. Each year these “Most of the use wc get in the rooms A well-kept secret since the new library opened, the reading room was rooms are evaluated tosee if any is from people throughout the com- g changes need to be made. munity and not from the students at moved from the fifth floor in an effort S? The counseling forcareers collec- Highline,”said McFarland. to gain more attention. New soft seat- nc tiol:. the parent education , and the Highline Community College has ing, better bookshelvesand more read- le engineering collection rooms will be received a grant for a Tutorial Prog- ing materials have been added in hopes zioscd.