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Modified: 12/3/2023 1:37:11 AM
HANOVER — On a late September evening, the 15 players on the Dartmouth men’s basketball team were summoned by their coaches to Berry Sports Center.
With the first game of the season still almost six weeks away, it wasn’t to practice, work on conditioning or study film.
They needed to rub elbows over pizza with Friends of Dartmouth Basketball, the booster club whose 200 donors contribute more than $300,000 a year to the men’s and women’s hoop teams combined. Along with the boosters who showed up in person, others joined in virtually from around the country.
For Cade Haskins, a junior on the team, his night’s work on this particular Thursday was only getting started.
Next up: A 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift at a campus snack bar.
Haskins is among 11 players on the team who receive financial aid packages that cover all or much of the $85,000 that it costs to attend Dartmouth this year.
Haskins and many of his teammates who also come from low-income backgrounds, however, must still take on jobs to pay for so-called extras. That is if gas for his 16-year-old Saturn, toiletries and plane tickets home to Minneapolis, Minn., are considered extras.
Haskins was fortunate to land a job with Dartmouth’s dining...
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