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Message: [QUOTE="Sifaka, post: 5048263, member: 8516"] The following is just fun speculation. Or is it? Given the highly questionable, in my not so humble opinion, logic of the NLRB ruling that the Dartmouth men's basketball team members are employees, and the more recent court decision referenced in the first post, what about the musicians? And what about the members of other student organizations? I ran cross country, both freshman and varsity, (Sports had separate teams for first year students back in the Pleistocene epoch when I was a college student.) and also devoted many hours to practice and performance with the Dartmouth Symphony. I considered both activities to be wonderful recreation, unpaid in money but highly rewarding in terms of competition, camaraderie, artistic expression, etc. But now an NLRB burrocrat has deemed at least one of my Alma Mater's sports team membership to be “employment”, despite the voluntary nature of the activity and the lack of salary or wages. Why shouldn't that line of thinking extend deep into the woodwind section of the DSO (Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra)? And how about the chess club, El Círculo Español, and the canoe club, that got me doing Eskimo rolls in the frigid upper reaches of the Connecticut River in January, in a home made kayak? Yeah. I want back pay for all of that. What? You think I'm bonkers? Well, ok, maybe I am, but if the men's BB team, arguably one of the worst in the country—sorry guys—are employees… [/QUOTE]

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