“The whole dorm came down with the same machla, and almost no one came to shiur." (Weiser)

“I don't see how the bochrim could get caught up in the machla of paying hundreds of dollars for sneakers.” (Weiser)

"I am very sorry to report that after a heroic 22-month battle against the machla, our beloved Rabbi Avraham Meir Levy, zt”l, was niftar on Shabbos." (source)