Attention Mascots (and teams with one)

[Kevin Selavko]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Focusing on mascot behaviour is casting far too narrow of a net. In general we need to be educating all members about proper behaviour at events, as well as encouraging all members to report any inappropriate behaviour that they witness or fall victim to.

At the FIRST Finale one of our younger male members was being harassed by a young woman. She had been bothering him for quite some time and he told her explicitly to stop bothering him. She then went to our coach and started trying to get him in trouble by saying he was being mean to her and swearing at her, luckily our coach saw her bothering our student and handled the situation well, but my point is that some people can unfortunately try to abuse reporting people and that any resulting investigations must not be taken lightly.