Interesting article in next week’s National Law Journal:  Tulane, Loyola Law Schools Say, "Save Your Pity"; Both Schools Battle Perception That They’re Living in a "Rubble," by Peter Page:

The Tulane and Loyola law schools have more in common than being neighbors on St. Charles Street in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans. Seemingly everyone at both schools is fed up with the sympathetic inquiries about their well being when they tell people they live in New Orleans. "There is a perception that the school and city are devastated and it is not," said Elizabeth Nowicki, who left Washington and Lee University School of Law in August to teach corporate law at Tulane University Law School. …

Both law schools report that by many measures — the number of students applying, their LSAT scores and undergraduate GPA, faculty hires — they are doing as well or better than before the hurricane. They believe all those measures would be better still if not for the perception they are still struggling to recover.