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smellier, dirtier, dumber and less
tasty than those in the Lone Star
State brought an angry reaction
Wednesday from the Louisiana agri
culture commissioner.
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crawfish that is going to save us Tex
ans from the shame and humiliation
that we have experienced over the
last many, many generations of hav
ing to eat those smelly, mud-coated,
itty-bitty, slow-witted crawfish from
Louisiana,” Texas Agriculture Com
missioner Jim Hightower said on
Tuesday.
“Jim Hightower will have to back
out and crawl,” Louisiana Agricul
ture Commissioner Bob Odom said
on Wednesday, referring to the way
a startled crawfish runs from dan
ger.
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“The one market we’ve gone head
to head with Texas crawfish has
been in the Swedish market,” Odom
said. “Louisiana beat the hell out of
them in the Swedish market. Out of
seven countries involved, Texas was
last.”
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A&M management professors say
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By Holly Beeson
REPORTER
Although opportunity has knocked at former
Dallas Cowboys Coach Tom Landry’s door in the
form of offers from San Antonio to help the city
land a professional football team, offers for
sports announcing positions and suggestions that
he run for public office, many people believe
Landry’s dismissal could have been handled
more tactfully.
Landry should have gotten the opportunity to
step down gracefully, two Texas A&M manage
ment professors said.
New Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones, fired
Landry without thinking about his well-being,
Dr. Gerald Ferris, associate professor of manage
ment, said.
“I think Jones was interested in getting things
going, bringing in his own new head coach,
Jimmy Johnson,” Ferris Said. “He really didn’t
consider allowing Landry to step down with some
dignity.”
Dr. Don Hellriegel, professor of business ad
ministration and management, thought it was
unfortunate that the process Jones used to dis
miss Landry fit the stereotypic view of the rough,
raw, gross Texan, even though Jones is not from
Texas.
“I think it fits with the mind set of the T’m
boss. I’m owner. I can do what I want and it’s my
property,’ ” Hellriegel said. “It certainly fits that
philosophy more prevalent in the early 1900s —
not today.”
Both professors agreed Landry would have
opted to step down if he had been given the op
portunity.
“Landry’s a person of obvious character and
could have taken the initiative to exit gracefully,”
Hellriegel said.
Ferris thinks Jones was in such a hurry to get
things done, he didn’t Find time to sit down with
Landry to talk about his options.
“Jones should have at least incorporated Land
ry’s opinion in his decision,” Ferris said, “rather
than just flying over and saying, ‘You’re Fired.’ ”
Ferris used the recent resignation of Jacli
Sherrill as an example, saying Sherrill was give
the option to resign rather than being fired
In more sophisticated organizations, Hellrif
gel said, it’s a common process to give individual
the opportunity to step aside gracefully withw
unnecessarily attacking their self-worth.
“The goal is to leave the person intactasa
man being,” he said, “not to destroy their oppo:
tunities for options with other organizations
where it becomes a public humiliation.”
The public wasn’t outraged by the outcomes
Jones’ decision, Hellriegel said, but morebyik
way he handled the situation.
Bringing in new upper management is a typ
ical procedure for a change in administration in
virtually any kind of organization, he said, partic
ularly in professional and collegiate sports.
“I don’t think Jones set himself up well in
way he handled this issue,” he said. "It maysed
signals to others in the organization on how It
might handle their own situations in the future.’
It’s not uncommon. fpt,. people to get
when merges and acquisitions occur, Ferris
even if they’ve been with tire organization for2!
years, such as Landry was.
“It’s not right and it’s not the kind thingtodo,
Ferris said, “but it happens every day.”
Union to teachers: Ignore violence menu
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HOUSTON (AP) — A union
leader suggests that teachers ignore
a local school district memo advising
them to intervene in certain con
frontations involving violent stu
dents.
Gayle Fallon, president of the
Houston Federation of Teachers,
citing the high potential for civil or
criminal liability against teachers,
blasted the memo issued recently by
the Houston Independent School
District.
Already, she noted, 12 HISD tea
chers are suspended after separate
allegations that they physically or
sexually abused students. The union
is directing teachers to avoid any
physical contact with students, Fal
lon said Monday.
“Students are telling teachers, ‘If
you touch me, I’m going to say you
hit me,’ ” Fallon said. “We’re saying,
‘Don’t touch the kid for any rea
son.’ ”
At a teacher training session last
week, Jones High School teachers
were given the memo. The memo
advised teachers how to handle secu
rity situations, including those in
volving violent and potentially vio
lent students.
“Often . . . when we see two stu
dents fighting, we falsely assume
that it is a mutual combat situa
tion ...” the memo said. “What
you may be seeing is an assault or
robbery taking place, and your im
mediate intervention may be nec
essary to stop the attack.”
The advisory further states tlai
“If the person is not acting in ah#
tile manner, inform the school offc
of the situation and formulate a pin
of action to con liscate the weapon
But one Jones teacher saidhewi
not risk his career or personalsafet
to stop a physical confrontation.
“There was a time in my caret
when 1 would have broken up
Fight,” American history teach
Andy Dewey said. “But I don’tevd
want to give a hint that I haveinaff
way hurt a child.”
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