As expected, the Naked Mile was a flop. The Ann Arbor News has declared the death of the tradition: “Seems Naked Mile has run its course”, and the Free Press ran this AP story apparently written by someone who didn’t venture outside: “Police: Five arrests, few spectators, at ‘Naked Mile'”

From the N.Y. Times’ obituary of Dr. Robert Atkins, creator of the low-carb, high-fat diet who died yesterday: “He graduated from the University of Michigan and spent a summer as a waiter and entertainer at resorts in the Adirondacks.” apparently sometime in the 1950s.

Also, an Ann Arbor man held a drunk intruder he caught trying to steal his dog.