Members of the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team congregated at the stately Hanover Inn near campus on a dreary, drizzly Tuesday and walked over to a small office building where they smiled for a group photo.
Then they went up to a second-floor conference room and took a vote that had been six months — or rather, many years — in the making.
When the yellow sheets of paper were tallied and certified about an hour later, the basketball players had accomplished something no other college athletes had done.
By a 13-2 vote, they had formed a union.
“It’s definitely becoming more real,” Cade Haskins, a junior on the basketball team and a leader of the effort, said to about a dozen reporters after the vote.
Persons:
“ It’s, ” Cade Haskins, ” Haskins
Organizations:
Dartmouth College men’s, Ivy League
Locations:
Hanover