Dead News Day

As we noted around Christmas, certain days of the year are dead news days, particularly with regard to news related to UC and UCLA.  New Year's Eve is one of those days.  The university is essentially shut, except for the hospitals.  (And, if you can avoid it, you might want to delay getting sick.)

All of that being the case, the blog wishes you a Happy New Year.  But the link below about a fellow named Tobias (absolutely unrelated to the leader of the UCLA Faculty Association - Tobias Higbie - we hasten to add) will remind you not to get too excited about the prospects for next year: