Word: whyte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played better as a team," sophomore Sandra Whyte said. "We definitely picked up the intensity in this game...
...Whyte, a right back for the Crimson, was a key player on transition by halting Yale's offensive attacks and driving the ball upfield...
...Whyte also claims that gentrification, one of the symbols of renewed urban vitality, is not the social evil for displaced people it has been made out to be. The real culprit, he contends, is the government decision not to build more housing. "People think you have a nice Italian family, and then you have these peace-eating liberals who push them out. Well, that's not the way it works," Whyte argues. "By and large, many steps have been taking place before the so-called gentrifiers move in. They do not buy from the nice ethnic family and kick them...
...Whyte is noticeably quiet about the crime, dirt, awful schools and general corrosiveness that drive people out of cities in the first place. One urban expert says Whyte romanticizes a city that no longer exists -- "the city E.B. White wrote about in 1946, where you could leave the Stork Club at 2 a.m. and take the subway home." Whyte concedes that he has no plan to solve the litany of urban problems, but he denies he is a dreamer. "I am an anti-Utopian," he says. "We've got a lot of problems in New York that are not going...
...then, go on living in Manhattan, as he has done for decades? "You've got to be crazy to live in Manhattan," Whyte concludes. Crazy about cities...