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DURHAM, N.C. -- Romeo Myrthil and his Dartmouth teammates are pursuing multiple goals to start the college basketball season.
There's winning games. And then there's the possibility of accomplishing something on a much bigger scale: changing college athletics through the team's attempt to unionize.
Nearly two months have passed since the team signed a petition seeking representation by the Service Employees International Union, which already represents some school employees. The focus is on the start of the basketball season, which began with Monday night's loss at No. 2 Duke.
The unionization effort lingers in the background, another challenge to the norms of college athletics in a time with athletes transferring freely through the portal and making endorsement money through the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL).