After reading the passage below, answer the questions that follow. Be sure to "submit" your response for each question. You will initially receive full credit for each question, but your grade may change once your instructor reviews your responses. Be sure to check the grade book for your final grade.
Ulterior Motives
As captain of the swim team, you have been asked to deliver an informative speech to your college’s alumni during homecoming week detailing the team’s past three seasons and hopes for the future. You have outlined a short, simple speech that notes individual members’ personal bests, team achievements, and the coach’s laudable efforts to recruit promising high school athletes. When your coach reviews your speech outline, she asks you to include more about the many scholarships that the school makes available to athletes.
You know that the coach has many motives for asking you to include more information about scholarship money. She is hoping, first and foremost, to convince alumni to support the team financially in order to entice more financially strapped but talented swimmers to choose your school. But you are torn: you know that most of the money that goes to your school’s sports programs is devoted to the larger and more popular basketball program. You are also annoyed because, four years ago, the coach recruited your close friend as a high school scholar-athlete with a partial scholarship that she promised would grow to a full scholarship the following year. The full scholarship never materialized; your friend is now about to graduate with huge student loans that he had thought he would be able to avoid when he chose to attend this school over others that had courted him.
As team captain, you are proud of your team’s record and eager to inform the alumni about it. But you also do not want to give them information that you feel is somewhat misleading. What should you do?