"Two British experts have looked at the physical setting as 'an active agent.' In their new study, they suggest that continually, though silently, a campus tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem."

-- Alison Lurie, New York Review of Books, 4 Dec 2008

 "As a graduate student once said to me, describing his school: 'All the windows were filthy, paint and plaster were scabbing off the walls in the dining hall, and the streets were full of trash. The place looked like shit, and it made me feel like shit'."

-- Alison Lurie, New York Review of Books, 4 Dec 2008