On March 5, the Dartmouth men's basketball team secured a victory on and off the court. They defeated Harvard 76 to 69 in a game, but earlier that day, they achieved a groundbreaking milestone by becoming the first college athletes in US history to vote to join a labor union.
The National Labor Relations Board oversaw the election, where the team voted 13 to 2 in favor of joining the service employees union SEIU Local 560. This decision followed a petition filed by the Dartmouth team in September to unionize, which was later supported by the NLRB's ruling that classified the players as employees of the school.
