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v.105:no,141
MONDAY
June 7, 1999
Volume 105 • Issue 147 • 6 Pages
College Station, Texas
Aggies advance to
1999 World Series
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One thing that Texas A&M base
ball coach Mark Johnson has said
about this year’s Aggie baseball team
is that it has a good resolve and does
not buckle when its back is against
the wall.
That statement was put to the test
Sunday afternoon as the Aggies trailed
4-3 going into the ninth inning with a
trip to Omaha, Neb. and the College
World Series on the line.
The Aggies stayed true to form as
shortstop Steve Scarborough and cen
ter fielder Steven Ttuitt hit solo home
runs in the top of the ninth to send
A&M to a 5-4 come-from-behind vic
tory over the Clemson University
Tigers.
With the win, the Aggies improved
to 52-16 on the year while Clemson
dropped to 42-27.
> “Obviously it was a great ninth in-
^ ning for the Aggies,” Johnson said.
“We displayed the same character
we’ve had all year. It was a no give-up
| type of situation, and we’ve done that
all year. ”
| Scarborough saved the day for the
Aggies when he led off the ninth with
his sixth home run of the year.
Scarborough fell behind in the
count 0-2 to Clemson reliever Chris
Heck. Heck then came back and
evened up the count at 2-2. On the
t ext pitch, Scarborough took the
.eck offering and promptly sent it
over the left field wall to tie the game
at four.
^ Scarborough said his focus was
just trying to get a rally started for his
team.
“1 was going up there just trying to
get on base,” Scarborough said. “He
(Heck) left one up in the zone, and I
got under it. It fell over the fence I
guess. I don’t even remember running
around the bases — I was floating.”
GAMES
TEXAS A&M
CLEMSON
Aggies win series, 2-1
Truitt came up two batters later and
sent the first pitch he saw from Heck
out to left field to give the Aggies the
lead and send them to Omaha.
“When Screech (Scarborough) tied
the game, it took the pressure off of us
in a way,” Truitt said. “ We knew that
we were going to have at least one
more chance. I was going up there just
trying to drive the ball. I saw one pitch,
and it was a good pitch.”
Heck (6-1), who threw 71 pitches
the day before in his longest outing of
the year, had not allowed a home run
all year until Truitt and Scarborough’s
blasts in the ninth.
see Aggies on Page 3.
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^ The Vision 2020 unveiling served as the final
meeting for the 260-member task force who
worked for a year to study and make recommen
dations for A&M’s future.
| The report, “Vision 2020: Creating A Culture of
Excellence,” said, “The goal of Vision 2020 is to
continue the academic evolution of Texas A&M
University, so it is generally considered one of the
10 best public universities in America by 2020,
while retaining, or even enhancing, many of the
unique features that have differentiated the Uni
versity in the past.”
[ The costs involved for the project are yet to be
determined.
| Vision 2020’s objectives include establishing
doctoral-level faculties in arts, humanities and so
cial sciences disciplines and obtaining one of the
nation’s best libraries, which will acquire both tra
ditional and electronic resources.
The University will call on many sources for
help and support including alumni and state
leaders for monetary support. Hagler, co-chair for
Vision 2020, said a central task for accomplish
ing Vision 2020’s goal will be to persuade the
state’s leaders of the state’s own self-interest in
this effort.
“Our spending per student is about half that of
our best national peers,” he said. “That is a pro
found funding gap, and it stretches credibility to
think we can attain national prominence with that
kind of investment deficiency.”
Michael Park, a member of the Library and In
formation Technology committee of the task force
and a former A&M football player, said the gen
erosity of former students also will play a major
role.
“Subsidies from alumni will be very important,”
he said. “But Aggies have always given to their
school, and if the next generation of Aggies con
tinues to do the same, this vision will become re
ality. ”
Hagler said support from the the Texas A&M
Board of Regents will be crucial to the University’s
long-term success, and he is encouraged by the at
titudes, qualities and capacities of the current
Board of Regents.
Robert Allen, a member of the Board of Re
gents, said, “I think we have an excellent
see Vision on Page 2.
12 POINT PLAN
1. Elevate our faculty and their teaching,
research and scholarship
2. Strengthen our graduate programs
3. Enhance the undergraduate academic
experience
4. Build the letters, arts and science core
5. Build on the tradition of professional
education
6. Diversify and globalize the A&M
community
7. Increase access to intellectual resources
8. Enrich our campus
9. Build community and metropolitan
connections
10. Demand enlightened governance and
leadership mdV
11. Attain resource parity with the best
public universities wiiilll
12. Meet our commitment to Texas
J.P. Beato/Thi Battalion
Toler released
from hospital
BY VERONICA SERRANO
The Battalion
Lt. Col. Ray E. Toler, director of the Texas A&M band,
is on the road to recovery after suffering a broken arm and
internal injuries as one of the passengers of American Air
line Flight 1420, which crashed while landing in a storm
in Little Rock, Ark., last Tuesday night.
Capt. Tim Rhea, associate director
of the Aggie Band, said he is one of the
few people who has had the opportu
nity to talk to Toler since the incident.
“He’s doing OK,” Rhea said. “I was
able to visit him in Little Rock and have
talked to him on the phone everyday.
He was able to talk to me for 15 min
utes yesterday. ”
Margot Bogel, a spokesperson for
Baptist Health System, said Toler was discharged from
Baptist Memorial Center in north Little Rock.
Rhea said Toler, his wife and three sons were still in
Little Rock.
“It was extremely traumatic for him (Toler),” Rhea said.
He said Toler was seated in the back of the plane,
where the plane caught on fire. He jumped 15 feet to
the ground from a hole in the side of the plane to es
cape.
Rhea said American Airlines flew in Toler’s oldest son,
from California, and his youngest son, from Texas, to Lit
tle Rock. Toler' had made the trip to Little Rock to see his
middle son, who lives in Arkansas, in the Air Force.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation by
the National Transportation Safety Board.
TOLER