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...Union servers aren't the only ones who fail to make the connection between the 6-ft., 3-in., 200-pound senior and the right side of Harvard's defensive line. A supervisor at Lamont for the past two years, whittington laughs, "At Lamont I get people calling me to work for them Saturday afternoon, because they want to go to the game." He has a previous commitment, he tells the callers...
...guys on the team get that [lack of recognition]," Whittington says, "because you're not a big person at Harvard if you play football, especially if you're a lineman. But that doesn't bother me...because you realize when you come here you won't be a compus hero...
...Whittington obviously revels in the team concept. "The team aspect of it is definitely the major part of it. I'm not an individual player, I'm not a star. I like everyone pulling along together, trying to make it work...
...still--if just because of his academic proclivities--Whittington does seem to attract a certain amount of attention. "Sometime at the beginning of the year, Restic was having everybody announce their majors. There were a lot of economics, maybe a history scattered here or there, a pre-med. And then he said 'Justin Whittington,' and there was total silence, and then everyone just burst out laughing, even though they knew damn well what I was majoring in. People on the football team think, 'This guy's an anomaly.'" And if so, he seems to enjoy it, chortling about when...
Thomas martin, assistant professor of the Classics, once got up in the middle of tutorial and announced that the Classics Department was proud to have a football player in its midst, while Richard F. Thomas, the head tutor, calls Whittington "one of the more serious concentrators," because he does work in both Greek and Latin, while most students do work in one or the other...