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downtown as against only Roxbury. That means I spent as much money in Roxbury as I spent all of downtown. Indeed, several years ago, members of the white backlash movement dubbed him Mayor Black for his involve- ment in the black neighborhoods. Gulo believes that, no matter what the White administration is doing else- where in the city, it certainly isn ' t ignoring his neighborhood. I think the city administration has taken more note of it than it ever has in the past, he said. It ' s a unique part of Boston. I think that through our efforts over the past four or five years, we ' ve brought the attention of the city to bear so that the various problems that the entire area confronted are being addressed one way or another. Housing for low and moderate- income people is being developed on Symphony Road and Westland Ave- nue, alleys have been widened, trees have been planted, streets have been patched up. Those are the kind of improvements Gulo cited. But he acknowledged that the city is still plagued by a woeful lack of good housing for all classes of people. Unemployment, trash, crime, poor public education and inadequate trans-
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ii ' : ' I ' I !j !| !! II !! j portation are just some of the other serious problems that must be addressed, he added. And unt il those problems are taken care of, Boston will continue to lose people like Diane Whitehead and Tony Fernandez to the suburbs. I guess it bothers me more now, after I ' ve lived with it for four years, in that I wanted to learn about it. I wanted to put myself in the middle of it to find out what was going on, and so, since I was looking for that, I guess it didn ' t bother me. I ' m ready for a quieter neighborhood, I think. The speaker was Diane Whitehead, 79 LA, the residence assistant at 122 St. Stephen St. Her situation is unique. She transferred to Northeastern from Colby College in Maine so she could see urban problems close up. I had chosen to go away from the city, she said. After a year, I still knew that I wanted to go into some line of social services or psychology or something related to people. And I found that I didn ' t have the ability to talk easily with people anymore, because I spent so much time with aca- demics. I mean, I made lots of friends. and it was really beautiful up there, but I was getting very very far away from all the issues that I wanted to deal with and cope with by going into social ser- vices. It was very isolated — and insu- lated. I guess I was afraid of losing touch with what ' s really happening. Although Whitehead had a small- town upbringing — her parents live in Foxborough, Mass., 25 miles south of Boston — she had spent time in the city as a youth, taking tours and working on research projects. So she was better prepared than many to handle the problems of urban living.
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