Not about Spain

So I´m quoted in the new Chapman Magazine, mostly because I worked in the Chapman University PR office this summer and was on hand for a quote. I´m not really sure how I feel about it. The issue is about the 50th Anniversary of the school moving from L.A. to Orange County and they asked me what my thoughts on the issue were. Here´s my quote:

Aaron Humphrey ´05
Senior Film Major
"When I think about Chapman moving from L.A. to Orange 50 years ago, I think of the students -- I wonder how I´d feel if I suddenly heard we were moving to another city? A lot of the area here seems like it´s probably the same as it was back then; with Old Towne being the way it is. Chapman has definitely changed more than the town around it. The university has grown a lot in the last 10 years. When people ask me how big my school is, I always have to stop and think -- is it bigger than it was yesterday? But if anything, Chapman still feels like a small school, even though it´s grown so much."

I´m pretty sure that is NOT exactly what I said, as it sounds a little to spun -- I think I was a little more critical of the school when I was initially interviewed. I´m surprised that it came out sounding so positive. But on the other hand, the quote does capture my affinity for using dashes, something I thought only showed up in my writing.
I guess it just bothers me that the quote is so oblique ... "With Old Towne being the way it is" -- What? Who is going to actually know that I was talking about the neighborhood committee that enforces the way storefronts look and what kinds of houses can be built? Who´s going to know it´s the that "the way Old Towne is" has also stopped our school from expanding as much as it would like to?
I think that Chapman really has been growing too much, too fast and too superficially. We need more student selectivity, better programs and a farther-reaching curriculum more than we need more buildings. But more buildings are what get all the attention. We´ve got some pretty amazing profs, though.
All in all, I´m torn. With the way Chapman is going, I don´t think it will feel like a small school in five, or even two years. But I know that part of the quote is completely accurate.
Because I threw it in at the end to give them something I knew they´d print.