The NCAA has long maintained that college players are “student-athletes” — a term designed to perpetrate the pretense that education comes first.
The school says playing on the basketball team is not a job; it's like participating in the orchestra or Model United Nations.
“Because Dartmouth has the right to control the work performed by the Dartmouth men’s basketball team, and the players perform that work in exchange for compensation, I find that the petitioned-for basketball players are employees,” she wrote.
The Dartmouth players want to be paid $20 an hour, like the cafeteria workers on campus, with the school paying their health care premiums.
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it’s, Cade Haskins, Romeo Myrthil, Laura Sacks, “, ”, Dartmouth doesn’t, Sacks, it's, Jimmy Golen
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