Highline Community College

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DATE: January 25, 2008

CONTACT: Natasha Burrowes, (206) 878-3710, ext. x3256, nburrowe@highline.edu

Lisa Skari, (206) 878-3710, ext. 3705, lskari@highline.edu

Black History Month at Highline Community College Welcomes Author Sophia Stewart

The Highline College Black Student Union welcomes Sophia Stewart to campus on February 12, at 10 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. in the Student Union Building.

Stewart has been involved in a years-long battle with Hollywood over work of hers that she says is the basis for both The Terminator and The Matrix. Stewart says that screen treatments she submitted were taken without compensation by others who turned them into those blockbuster films.

Stewart is the author of The Third Eye, from which she says the filmmakers ultimately stole ideas. Although Stewart’s initial court case was dismissed, she points out that her initial legal representation failed to actively and thoroughly pursue her case.

This event is free and open to the public, and comes to Highline as part of Black History Month.

Highline Community College was founded in 1961 as the first community college in

King County. With approximately 9,500 students and 350,000 alumni, it is one of the state’s largest institutions of higher education. The college offers a wide range of academic transfer and professional-technical education programs, with day, evening, on-line, and weekend classes.

With the most diverse population of any college in Washington State, Highline takes a multi-cultural approach to education for the success of all its students and the prosperity of its surrounding communities. Alumni include former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, entrepreneur Junki Yoshida and noted author Ann Rule.

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