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YEAR • ISSUE 145 • 6 PAGES
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
TOMORROW
Sports:
Pick-up basketball games at
the Student Rec Center serve
as a fun and physically com
petitive means of exercise
during summer school.
TUESDAY • JUNE & • 1998
Regents conduct final meeting
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Chair
Donald E. Powell
Vice Chair
T. Michael O'Connor
Members
Robert H. Allen
John H. Lindsey
Frederick D. McClure
Erie Nye
M. Guadalupe L. Rangel
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1HXAS A & M UNIVERSITY
New campus water source and acceptance
of bids for construction among approved items
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By Rod Machen
Assistant City Editor
After the final meeting of the Texas A&M
Board of Regents on May 28, the salty state of
campus tap water is about to change.
During the meeting, the Regents approved
a contract with the Brazos River Authority to
use water from Lake Limestone as an alternate
source to the present ground water supply.
The change should improve the quality of
water for a campus that uses an average of 8.1
million gallons per day.
The Board authorized Chancellor Barry
Thompson to take bids to complete the fifth
and sixth floors of the Sterling C. Evans Li
brary annex.
The two floors, which were originally
planned to be left unfinished, are expected to
be finished by Christmas 1998.
In other business, the Board:
Authorized the Chancellor to take bids
on a renovation of Hensel Street. This area be
hind University Apartments will also be
equipped with improved street lighting.
The project also calls for a parking area for
the new child care center scheduled to open
in August.
Approved a $1.6 billion 1998 budget
for the entire Texas A&M University System,
a three percent increase from 1997.
A&M's share is $684 million.
Approved system member Tarleton
State University to begin offering upper- and
graduate-level classes.
The classes will be held at Central Texas
College, a community college in Killeen. The
University of Central Texas, a private school
which had formerly offered upper-level class
es at Central Texas College, will transfer its
assets to the A&M System.
Officials hope the new university will be in
operation by fall 1999.
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Amber Benson
City Editor
■ State Highway 6 from Waco to Houston will be among the
j^rstcorridors completed in the Texas Trunk System, due to new
Selection criteria adopted by the Texas Transportation Commis
sion Thursday in Austin.
I The new criteria adopted by the Commission will focus on
completing entire corridors by considering projects on a region
al basis. Portions of Texas 6, Texas 105, F.M. 1744 from Waco to
■louston and Texas 21 and US 290 from Bryan/College Station
|k Austin were selected to be included in the 11 corridors to be
|ompleted in the first phase of the project.
Highway 6 is an essential
ransportation artery which cuts
through the heart of Central Texas.”
— Steve Ogden
Texas State Senator
The original list of Phase 1 corridors did not include State
lighway 6. By including it and the other highways, the Com-
nission has prioritized in excess of $260 million and almost 100
niles of highway construction projects to the area state Senator
teveOgden said.
"Highway 6 is an essential transportation artery which cuts
hrough the heart of Central Texas," Ogden, who petitioned for
he roadway known as the 'Aggie Expressway' to be included
n the list of priority projects, said. "Most of this region is not
erved by an existing interstate-quality road. This is great news."
First approved in 1990, the Texas Trunk System is a long-
ange plan to upgrade existing roadways into a four-lane, di-
ided highway system that includes and complements the in-
erstate highway system. According to information provided
)y the Texas Department of Transportation, about 3,900 miles
)f the Trunk System still need expansion from two lanes to
our lanes.
Before the adoption of the criteria, projects were complet-
;d in a piecemeal fashion, resulting in incomplete corridors.
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Students wait outside the Parking Traffic and Transportation Services (PTTS) office in the Koldus Building on Monday af
ternoon to pick up parking tags for the summer session. After waiting in line for an hour, Aaron Corner, a senior market
ing major, said, “Why don’t they (PTTS) set up a couple of tables? They know this is going to happen every semester.”
News Briefs
Freshman to be honored
at Sept. 8 Silver Taps
Joseph Thornton, a freshman aerospace
engineering major from Beeville, died May
1 7 in a car accident. Thornton was a resident
of Walton Hall. He will be honored at the
September 8 Silver Taps.
Faculty Senate elects
new '98 - '99 officers
The Faculty Senate elected officers for
the 1998-99 academic year at the final
meeting of the 1 5th session on May 11.
Diana Kaplan replaced her colleague in
the College of Education, Wayne Wylie as
speaker of the senate. Arther Hobbs of the
College of Science was named deputy
speaker.
Former speaker Wayne Wylie installed
32 newly elected and reelected senators.
Street accepts appointment
to head of department
Richard L. Street has accepted appoint
ment as head of Texas A&M University's
Department of Speech Communication ef
fective Sept. 1. He succeeds Linda Put
nam, who is returning to her faculty posi
tion.
Street, a professor of speech communi
cations, came to A&M in 1988 from Texas
Tech University, where he served as chair
of speech communication. He earned his
bachelor's and master's degrees in speech
communication in 1975 and 1977, re
spectively, from Texas Tech and his Ph.D.
in communication from the University of
Texas at Austin in 1980.
In addition to his distinguished research
in health-care communication. Street is an
award-winning teacher. In 1991 he re
ceived the Association of Former Students
teaching award.
iProgram underway to boost A&M into ‘top 10’
By Shatera Kennedy
Staff Writer
The Vision 2020 program that was de
signed to propel Texas A&M University into
one of the "top 10" public universities in the
country will kick-off June 4 under the lead
ership of Jon L. Hagler.
President Ray Bowen chose Hagler, an
11958 alumnus, to lead the initiative be
cause of his dedication to A&M and his
outside experiences.
"Being based on the East Coast, Hagler
has the opportunity to view A&M from a
Iperspective that is perhaps different in
jsome respects from that of ours here in
iTexas, and that," Bowen said, "can be a
1 distinct advantage in a project such as Vi-
|sion 2020."
Hagler is a partner in the firm of
Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo and Co. L. L.
C. He is also a member of the board of
trustees of the Texas A&M Foundation,
which raises funds on behalf of the univer
sity. The new development foundation
building, currently under construction, will
bear Hagler's name.
"I am very grateful to this university
which has given me the most profound de
velopmental experience of my life and a
corollary legacy of rich beliefs from winch,"
Hagler said, "I draw to this day."
The Vision 2020 program will concen
trate on 11 key areas which include gradu
ate studies, undergraduate academics, de
mographics and leadership.
The programs primary focus is the steps
and strategies necessary to move A&M to
the academic forefront nationally by the
year 2020.
The program, which Bowen announced
at the Academic Convocation in October,
will actively involve more than 200 faculty,
staff, students, former students and other
supporters with representation evenly di
vided from within and outside the universi
ty, Bowen said.
A 14-member planning group has been
meeting for the past six months to assemble
background information and establish basic
parameters for the study.
The first phase of Vision 2020 will be for
mally launched June 4-6 with a series of
campus sessions focusing on assessments
and aspirations.
"Texas A&M represents the best instincts
of the people of this state and this nation,"
Hagler said, "and 1 believe it is our very spe
cial destiny to nourish and empower it in the
years ahead."