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Contain- ing her phone, wallet and laptop, the backpack's total worth was approximately $1,700. All cracked up WHERE: 1421 Ann St. WHEN: Wednesday at about 4:50 p.m WHAT: A parked car was hit and the taillight was cracked, University Police reported. There are nosus- pects. Parking problems WHERE: Hill Carport WHEN: Wednesday at about 11:20p.m WHAT: The driver's side rear quarter panel of a vehi- cle was struck by another vehicle in the parking structure, University Police reported. Whiff of weed WHERE: South Quad Resi- dence Hall WHEN: Wednesday at about 2:30 a.m WHAT: Suspected mari- juana and paraphernalia were taken from student, University Police reported. The student will be charged with possession of mari- juana. Hip hop summit WHAT: A conference that gathers students, artists and others to learn how to use hip hop to create positive social change. The event will last two days andtickets start at $15. 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BIKE From Page 1 to get approval for the bike- sharing program in the fall, and it has now reached about 1,250 signatures. In addition, both Central Student Government and LSA Student Government's Tak- ing Responsibility for the Earth and Environment subcommittee have recently endorsed the pro- gram. "We increased our campaign efforts and we have expanded like crazy," Elliott said. "In the past two days alone, we got over 400 signatures. We were just getting our feet wet in the fall but now we have a lot of student sup- port." Elliott said the process of set- ting up the program is difficult and requires continued support and collaboration from students, University administrators and city officials. "We have talked to adminis- trators and they have been help- ful and insightful but they are not sure if the University has the money or the critical mass at the moment," Elliott said. Stephen Dolen, executive director of the University's Park- ing and Transportation Services, said the University has been working with the city to make infrastructure more bike-friend- ly. "A lot of the roads bikers use are major city roads so we are working together with the city on that," Dolen said. "We are col- laborating with city on the non- motorized plan." While developing the pro- gram, Elliott and Dolen have extensively researched other communities with successful bike share programs. Dolen said he is following plans similarto those established in Denver and Boulder, Colo. and colleges such as the University of California Davis and Washington State University. Elliott said he worries that the University may try to use a bike rental system in place of bike sharing, a mistake made by Washington, D.C.'s SmartBike system. "A bike share will be more readily used," Elliott said. "If you rent a bike you need to return it to the (Sports and Recreation Center) and on top of that you need to pay a small fee. For a bike share program there are multi- ple places to return the bike and it would increase mobilization throughout campus." LSA senior Matt Lonnerstater wrote in an e-mail interview that he thinks students would ben- efit from a bike share program, but that pressing infrastructure issues should be resolved before the program is instated. "If a bike-sharing program were to be introduced in Ann Arbor today given its current bike infrastructure, the program would go down in flames," Lon- nerstater wrote. "Much like an incomplete game of connect the dots, Ann Arbor bike rental sta- tions would serve no feasible purpose without an organized system of bike lanes and paths to get from one station to another." Lonnerstater wrote that the establishment of a better trans- portation system for bikers is critical before a bike shar- ing system can successfully be implemented. This concern was echoed by other students at a forum last week hosted by the Office of Campus Sustainability and PTS. Students said biking, especially to North Campus, was unsafe. School of Information gradu- ate student Shiblee Hasan said he would use the bikes to get to class and around campus. "I would use it a lot," Hasan said. "I have to jump around a lot of buildings and I think it would help me get places faster." LSA freshman Damie Pak agreed with Hasan and said she is looking forward to the sharing system, as she commutes home by bike. "I have a bike but I leave it home for the winter," Pak said. "But if there was a bike sharing program I would definitely use it. It's healthy and I like doing it. And with the shared bikes it would be more convenient because I can leave it anywhere." At the bike forum last Monday, students voiced concerns regard- ing a lack of enclosed spaces and parking availability. However, Elliott said bike- sharing works due to its simplic- ity, adding that finding parking and worrying about maintain- ing the bike is not the student's responsibility. "A lot of students have bikes, but are not able to bring them from home, or choose not to because there are not enough bike racks or they are afraid their bikes will get stolen," Elliott said. "So this just allows them to have an easy source." LSA From Page 1 LSA-SG president Anne Laverty said she hoped the event helped to improve the relation- ship between students and LSA administration. "(We want) to bridge that disconnect between students and administrators," she said. "(People) want to connect." LSA senior Eman Abdelhadi, president of the Muslim Stu- dent Association, said the dia- logue was especially relevant to the Arab and Muslim students studying liberal arts. She said many Arab and Muslim students feel they can only study engi- neering ortake pre-med courses. "Without these types of dia- logues, you have whole pockets of communities on campus who just don't know about the initia- tives that the administration is putting on for them," she said. "I think that's problematic for both ends." OXFORD From Page 1 The petition now has more than 900 signatures. Behzadi said the council is waiting to gain at least 1,000 signatures before presenting its requests to Univer- sity administrators. Steve Dolen, executive direc- tor of University Parking and Transportation Services, said the department takes a variety of factors into consideration when making decisions to alter bus scheduling. He said the addition of Oxford bus hours on the week- end was not a direct response to the petition, but rather the result of an evaluation of the situation and collaboration among groups on campus. "An evaluation process is always a collaboration between Student Affairs, Housing and other groups on campus," Dolen said. "We don't make decisions in avacuum." Dolan said the weekend hours of 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. were chosen to give students a transporta- tion option before SafeRide - a free service offered to students in need of transportation late at Abdelhadi added that Univer- sity administrators need to do a better job of advertising the value of LSA degrees. "When a student graduates from a top five department and yet feels like their degree will not take them anywhere in life, then that's a huge failure," she said. "(Administrators) com- municate to students the value of that degree and to instill in them that confidence to know that that's a degree that's sought after in the world." Philip Deloria, LSA associ- ate dean of undergraduate edu- cation, and Marjorie Horton, assistant dean for undergradu- ate education in LSA, also spoke to the meeting's attendees. Deloria stressed the importance of improving the relationship between administrators and students. Deloria specifically men- tioned the Sophomore Initia- tive - a program tailored to LSA sophomores that includes courses and a special CTools site night - begins service. Dolen declined to comment on how PTS will react to the petition since it has not yet been presented. However, he said the opinions of students and other organizations are important to PTS and would certainly be con- sidered, adding that administra- tors will also take into account the financial aspect of expand- ing hours as they continue to reach out to members of the community. "We would take (the petition) 'into consideration, with every- thing else, when we're talking to these other groups, our con- stituents and our customers," Dolen said. "We're making sure we're touching base with all the right folks and of course it comes down to making sure we're using our resources wisely, so it's a financial decision as well." Dolen added that ensuring student safety is a "key part" of PTS' role on campus. "It's about supporting the academic mission, it's about sup- porting the housing mission for students," Dolen said. "Security is definitely a key piece of any decision we make." LSA sophomore Kristen Cleg- and how LSA used e-mail list- servs to inform students about exclusive courses, though few were aware of these efforts. Deloria added that he is look- ing for new ways to reach out to students, including improv- ing the presence of LSA deans online. "All the websites in the dean's office are a total mess," he said. Deloria said he would also consider obtaining a list of LSA students' phone numbers. He said the list could be used to send out short, important text messages to students that would lead them to a simple, easy-to- use website, adding that access and use of the list would need to be extremely limited to prevent abuse. After the event, both McDon- ald and Laverty agreed that it was a productive discussion. "People are interested in this and want more conversation," . Laverty said. "Hopefully this will be something student gov- ernment will do more of." horn, president of the Oxford Community Council, said she is motivated by the previous changes to the Oxford Shuttle hours and is looking forward to future changes. "Now that we've won that battle, we're trying to expand busing hours because the need is still high, especially in the Oxford area," she said. Cleghorn said the need for extended bus hours is crucial, especially because of the numer- ous assaults and robberies that have occurred in the Oxford area in the past. "We think it's really impor- tant to have hours that extend, just for everyone's safety," she said. Cleghorn said she sent the petition to a number of Greek Life leaders in order to gain additional support, adding that she is pleased that the major- ity of them have forwarded the petition to their members, which has made a significant impact. "I'm honestly really glad to see it picking up pace," she said. "I'm really happy that the coun- cil has the opportunity to make such a lasting improvement to Michigan safety." WANT TO LIVE THE DREAM? DO IT EVERYDAY AT THE MICHIGAN DAILY. E-MAIL RAYZAG@MICHIGANDAILY.COM