Statistics lab may be replaced The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 9, 1983 - Page 15 BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIALI By CHERYL BAACKE The University's Statistical Research Laboratory may be closed and replaced by a larger statistics center if ad- ministrators accept the recommen- dations of a summer review committee. The committee, which presented its report to the University's executive of- ficers in May, suggested replacing the laboratory with a statistical consultin- center and shifting its computing "responsibilities to the University Com- puting Center. BY ELIMINATING the center's computing burden, committee mem- bers said the center could return to its primary mission of research and con- sulting. The panel estimated the switch would cost the University $105,000. The laboratory provides statistical consulting to students and faculty and develops computer programs for researchers. The panel noted that many units within the University, such as the economics and sociology departments, have in-house programs for statistical Sresearch. r BIO-STATISTICS Prof. Richard 3Landis, a member of the review panel, M said the smaller labs would not be axed if the committee recommendations are approved, but said the new institute ,would centralize the University's statistics research. Statistical Research Laboratory Director William Ericson said demand for the program's services has in- creased 20 percent annually, forcing the lab to request more money. Ericson said former Vice President for Research Charles Overberger commissioned the review as "am- munition for increased funding." HOWARD Finkbeiner, assistant to the vice president for research, said a decision on whether to restructure SRL and boost its funding would probably be made in the fall. Under the panel's recommendations, the new Institute of Applied Statistics would receive $87,500 a year and the in- stitute would spend $175,000 on its computing unit. The cost of new com- puter and printing equipment would be a one-time expenditure of $18,000. The panel also recommended that a "user's group" oversee the computing unit and the consulting center to "weigh competing options against scarce resources, and make reasonable choices.' THAT PROSPECT angers Daniel Fox, associate director of SRL "The creation of an executive committee (in a unit which has directors) is un- paralled," he said. "there is no unit at the University that has such a commit- tee.". "The current arrangement has been a successful arrangement," Fox added. Fox is the man largely responsible for SRL's current structure. He designed the MIDAS and TEXTEDIT data analysis and text processing systems the lab uses. Ed Rothman, chairman of the statistics department said the lab "has been doing a pretty good job generally and we're looking at a step forward." This story was reprinted from the summer edition of the Daily. LIQUID PAPER' PEN & INK' wn.- £ nk Cooo «a. <«, ,<3o LIQUID PAPERR For Typed or i'andwitken Errors Regular Price 1.39 SALE PRICE: 991, MICHIGAN BOOK STORE 322 SOUTH STATE STREET ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN 48108 8fAU~y AIDS I I i P 1.' I c t i m I COSMO ViA SFRAGRANCES _____________________________________ VITMNS ... HAIRNOIS DISTIBUORSCANDY'*." NOFTION _____ ____ _____ ____ _____ ____ _____ ____ ___ Er- FOODS MT R Yu " s ""CARDhS OUSa ARES Store Hours Monday - Saturday 9:00 - 9:00 Sunday 11:00-5:00 971-6200 Phone Pharmacy Hours Monday - Saturday 9:00- 7:00 Sunday 11:00-5:00 973-1630 Phone s family aided (Continued from Page 12) into a dormitory corridor and opened fire into the smoke with a sawed-off shotgun. Kelly was convicted of murder and 'sentenced to life in prison without parole in August 1982. A year and two days after McGreaham's death, his parents filed a claim with the state Crime Victims Compensation Board, hoping to collect partial repayment for their son's funeral expenses. The board was established in 1977 to compensate crime victims and their families for expenses not covered by in- surance. Medical and burial costs are the usual basis for claims, which are limited to $15,000. But claims must be filed within one year of a crime, and since the ,McGreah ams were two days late, the request was denied. "THE MCGREAHAMS were so devastated by the loss of their son, they couldn't fill out the forms for a long time," said Washtenaw County Prosecutor Lynwood Noah, who told the McGreahams about the compensation board. Noah, the prosecutor in the case against Kelly, then contacted House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dominic Jacobetti (D-Negaunee) and Rep. Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor). Both agreed to help waive the deadline, and to push the claim through the state Slegislature. The McGreahams' claim hit another snag last winter, however, when state officials proposed eliminating the com- pensation board to save money. BUT GOV. JAMES Blanchard later withdrew his proposal to cut the program because of "public outcry," according to Bullard, and the claim passed the state Senate and House. The money, however, has not erased the trauma of losing their son, accor- Sding to McGreaham's mother, Rosemary. "The money doesn't make me any happier-it won't bring Doug Sback," she said. She added that they would use the Smoney to start a college fund for her Sfourteen-year-old son Dan. "He used to want to go to Michigan," McGreaham's mother said. "But Ann Arbor has such terrible memories that he won't go to Michigan." This story was reprinted from the summer edition of the Daily. 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