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DUEY AND I y 1 > \ ^READYKNOW/ \ MY SODCZ I'M CONFUSED WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT MY SOUL? / > WELL BEING THE ARCHANGEL LUCIFER C AN'ALL, ACCUMULATING -i r 7 SOULS IS NECESSARY FOR MY EXJ8TANCE .V YOU MEAN YOU'RE THE DEVIL?!?! / WHAT? / YOU THINK OPRAH LOSES WEIGHT ON A TREADMILL? HEE HEE HEE FO RIZOLE OR PHIZ2DLEI HOWS MY UNDER WORLD HOMEBOY?? LIVIN' laroe ooo* / AND YOURE . LOOKIN'SWOLE ’— ’ YOU BEEN f LIFTIN'? L^J DUEY. HOW COULD YOU SELL YOUR SOUL TO SATAN? / IF YOU CAN THINK Of AN EASIE R WAY FOR ME TO MAKE OUT WITH A OILMORE GIRL. I* ALL EARS /hey TOBY KEITH SOLD ^ HIS FOR SO BUCKS) V A BUCKE T Of EXTRA Students Continued from page 1 distribution major. “I’m excited. I got to see him at TCU a few times and saw what he did with them. He turned them from a 1-10 team to 10-1 a couple years later. You don’t find many college coaches who can do that.” On campus, news that Franchione had arrived at A&M quickly spread. Most students expressed joy that the Aggies had found someone to replace former head coach R.C. Slocum. Justin Jones, a sophomore business major, said some sentiment still remained for Slocum, but the Aggie football team would benefit from a fresh face. “I'm still a little sad to see R.C. Slocum leave,” Jones said. “He was a good guy. but I think it was time for a change. We needed something different and (Franchione) should help it. We need to be a lot better in the Big 12, and we need to beat t.u. I’m tired of going home at Thanksgiving £ind hear ing a bunch of gloating.” Franchione has a 155-73-2 record as a head coach, and led the University of Alabama Crimson Tide to a 10-3 record this year. As a result, students will have high expecta tions of Franchione at A&M. said Kevin Kolos, a senior industrial distribution major. “I’d like to see us go to a top-tier bowl” he said. “Not necessarily a BCS bowl, but not the Tangerine Bowl or the Humanitarian Bowl. I’d like to see A&M get nine wins next year.” Most current students were not in school the last time the Aggies won nine games in a season. A&M carded an 1 1-3 record during the 1998 Big 12 championship season. The Aggies finished 2002 with a 6-6 record. “I fully expect us in three years to be where OU and Texas are now,” Bass said. “I want the swag ger back in the program.” Dallas Shipp contributed to this report Alabama Continued from page 1 Alabama students, fans and athletes. Hernandez said the entire student population seems to be in a state of shock, in addition to feeling betrayed by Franchione. “I certainly don’t want them to be that way,” Franchione said. Franchione’s decision to leave the Crimson Tide has many fans fearing the worst for the future of the Alabama football program, which may face additional sanc tions by the NCAA because of recruiting violations committed before Franchione’s term began in 2001. Hernandez said it will be dif ficult to attract coaches with the NCAA sanctions, but he said the Alabama job is still one of the top jobs in the nation. “This is a prestigious job and with it comes a lot of scrutiny from the fans and alumni,” Hernandez said. “Everyone is involved with the team down here. I don’t know what kind of coach would come in, but I think we can get a coach to come here.” With the additional NCAA sanctions that may face Alabama, finding a coach may be more difficult than many Crimson Tide fins want to admit. A&M graduate student Roberto Gasparini says he can sympathize with the way Alabama fans are feeling but said he is still excited about Franchione’s arrival in College Station. “They’re mad at him because he said he would stick with them,” Gasparini said. “He said he agreed to the extension and now he’s not signing it, 1 can under stand them being mad at him.” True Brown contributed to this report. Testing Continued from page 1 students’ standards and provide the students with more knowledge,” she said. “TAKS will push the younger kids to read and therefore help them be successful in the future.” TAKS will also provide better-educated students for the state and for A&M, said Dr. Lynn Burlbaw, associate professor of social studies education. For current A&M students who will be teach ing in the future, the new test will not require a change in instructional strategies, only additional content knowledge, Burlbaw said. “Since all Texas students must pass the TAKS test, they will be better prepared to attend college in Texas,” she said. “Teachers will have to be bet ter educated to help public school students do well on the TAKS and will have to be more aware of the relationship between what they are teaching and what students will be responsible for on the exam.” Ml TH E BAUcl Franchione Continued frompa^ comment late Thursday^ the length of the contract Franchione was unde; tract with Alabama J 2(X)7 and was on the signing an extensionthr,' have kept him there - 2012, a 10-year deal J reported $15 million. Alabama planned to ik the buyout for Franchione , SI million to $2 million j ot the new contractextensr Alabama’s football p was slapped with a five' probation period in Fefe The possibility of addical NCAA sanctions, stemy from recruiting violation^ mined prior to Francfe term as head coach, added:; to the lire that Franchione* | leave Alabama for A&M. Alabama's current sac| banned them from goi bow l for 2002 and 2l stripped 21 scholarshipsdutj; three-year period thatbegni season. But the Crimson j posted a 10-3 record this sea despite the NCAA sanctions The Tide finished 3-8 their last seav-::| mer head coach Mike Dok In Franchione’s first sea u ith Alabama in 2001,the*: finished 7-5 and went to i Independence Bowl. Franchione was come by many to be the front ns: take over the head coach:: at A&M after A&M head8a| ball coach R.C. Slocum fired Monday morning. Prior to coaching Aim Franchione was the headed at Texas Christian Uniw® from 1998-2000. He ha .; held the head coaching spit Pittsburgh (Kan.) State ' 1985-1989. Southwest ta State University from and the University o()e« Mexico from 1992-97 A press conference isse»i- uled for 8:30 a.m. atBa- Auditorium under the westsc of The Zone at Kyle FAJ Students are invited to ‘••'I the press conference trou lower east stands, ^ section side, on the Kyle net jumbotron. True Brown contributed this report Pharmacist jaiM for diluting drugs KANSAS CITY, Mo. («' pharmacist who , chemotherapy dru 8 s . fo sands of cancer patient -1 sentenced to the ma^ years Thursday after nesses told a judge had cost them prec |0US with their loved ones. Robert R. Courtney no emotion announced “Your crimes are 3 „^ the civilized conscie , District Judge Odne told him. "They are understanding- Defense a«v» j Courtneys 5 had urged Smith to ^ lightest possible ' , under the terms oH. plea agreement"I' without parole. 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