Last Saturday night, at your last home tennis match (which helped win the fifth straight conference championship making your tennis coach the all-time winningest tennis coach in history), the team captain took over the microphone after the match was complete, and began to thank all of the fans for coming and supporting the team. She then stated, “It is a tradition with our team that, after the last home match, the freshmen sing the fight song for the audience. So, without any further ado, here are the freshmen!!!”. The three freshmen, embarrassed, go to the microphone and sing, acapella, the fight song. When they are finished, the coach takes the microphone, thanks the freshmen, thanks the team, thanks the fans, and thus ends the home tennis season. Unfortunately, the visiting team is unbelievably offended by this behavior. The visitors are aware of the “zero-tolerance” hazing policy that is practiced throughout the conference, and the visiting team coach immediately calls the conference headquarters and reports this. The conference, in turn, contacts you and asks you to “handle it”, as they are uncertain as to the actual facts other than the visiting coach had said that “hazing” was occurring.

Question 2: Please write a memorandum to your head coach expressing your opinion as to this practice. It may or may not be hazing. You must decide, and then base your decision to either punish or not punish, or what mechanisms, if any, you will put into place. Please be creative and all-encompassing, as this memo will be public information and could damage the reputation of the coach, if not done carefully (and harm SU-ME in the process).