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DARTMOUTH MEN’S BASKETBALL VOTES TO BECOME FIRST COLLEGE TEAM TO
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Brian Niemietz
March 5, 2024
New York Daily News
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_ Their initiative follows a 2021 Supreme Court ruling that the
National Collegiate Athletic Association’s restrictions on
student-athlete earnings violates antitrust laws. _

Dartmouth Big Green players huddle during their game against Columbia
Lions in their NCAA men’s basketball game on February 16, 2024 in
New York City. , (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images)

 

The Dartmouth men’s basketball team on Tuesday voted 13-2 in favor
of becoming the first college sports program
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unionize.

The Big Green plans to team up with SEIU Local 560, which represents
more than 500 employees at the Ivy League school in Hanover, N.H. In
addition to basketball players, the local union claims security
guards, craftsman and custodians in its brotherhood.

“It’s time to bargain a fair contract,” the union wrote to the
college on social media. “NCAA athletes deserve better.”

The team announced its intention
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unionize in September in a column penned by basketball players Romeo
Myrthil and Cade Haskins for the school’s newspaper.

“We deeply appreciate the opportunity that we have to study at
Dartmouth, but the business of college sports is different today than
it was a few years ago,” the teammates wrote in The Dartmouth.

Their initiative follows a 2021 Supreme Court ruling that the National
Collegiate Athletic Association’s restrictions on student-athlete
earnings violates antitrust laws
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programs typically bring considerable income to colleges and
universities.

Myrthil and Haskins wrote that they hope to see student-athletes
monetarily compensated for their labor like other students employed on
campus. They also want Dartmouth to be held responsible for costs
associated with “any long-term disabilities” incurred by athletes
representing Dartmouth during sporting events.

Collegiate athletes aren’t currently paid by their schools, though
they are allowed to capitalize on their personal brands
through sponsorships and endorsements
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But that isn’t an option for everyone who plays a college sport.

Myrthil and Haskins called Tuesday’s vote “a big day for our team
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and called for an end to “the age of amateurism” in college
athletics.

[Dartmouth basketball players Romeo Myrthil, left, and Cade Haskins
talk after voting at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., Tuesday,
March 5, 2024. Dartmouth basketball players vote Tuesday on whether to
form a union.(AP Photo/Jimmy Golen)]

Dartmouth basketball players Romeo Myrthil, left, and Cade Haskins
talk after voting at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., Tuesday,
March 5, 2024. Dartmouth basketball players vote Tuesday on whether to
form a union.(AP Photo/Jimmy Golen)

Dartmouth is appealing the National Labor Relations Board’s
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student-athletes as employees.

“For Ivy League students who are varsity athletes, academics are of
primary importance, and athletic pursuit is part of the educational
experience,” Dartmouth said in a statement opposing union
certification.

School officials have one week to appeal Tuesday’s election
procedure, which lasted about an hour.

With 21 losses in 26 games, the Dartmouth men’s basketball team sits
in last place in the Ivy League standings. The team plays its final
game against Harvard Tuesday night. They didn’t qualify for the
March 15 Ivy League Madness tournament
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Side’s Francis S. Levien Gymnasium.

_Brian Niemietz started with the Daily News in July 2012 and works on
the National News desk, covering breaking news, politics, crime,
celebrity and sometimes, all those things at once. _

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