2 - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4141C fidIftan~al 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETERSHAHIN KIRBY VOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 734-418-4115 'at. 0241 pjahahie@michigasdaily.cam kvaigtman@michigaedaily.cam SLICE 'N DICE Prof. finds the missing pieces Roderick Little is the Richard D. Remington Distinguished Uni- versity Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. He earned his undergraduate degree from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. from the University of London before teaching at the University of Michigan. His main research involves the analysis of data sets with missing values. What piece of your scholarship is the most important to you and what are you most proud of? My main areas are in handling missing data. So when you have studies where you're collecting data of differing values, there are some things that people answer questions on or holes in the data sets. I have one of the first books on that topic. It's quite highly cited. I also do work on survey sampling. Recently, at the Census Bureau, I was working to set up a research directorate under the leadership of Robert Groves, who is actually the census director who came from Michigan. Why are there holes in data sets? I ask you a question about income and you don't want to answer that question since you think it's intrusive or some peo- ple just don't have the informa- tion readily at hand. Some people don't respond to a surveybecause they don't want to be bothered with the time. Whyis statistics and biostatistics important? Statistics is important because good decisions rely on having good information. Having good information relies on having data and making good inferences from the data. Biostatistics works more on the medical area. There's a lot of interest in evidence-based medicine where you try to make rational decisions based on infor- mation about various treatments and biostatistics is really at the forefront of creating evidence. - MAXRADWIN Newsroom 734-418-4115 opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com h Arts Section arts@michigandaily.come Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales dailydisplay@gmaicom Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Letters tothe Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classified@michigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com LUNA NA N ANRCHEY/Daily Music, Theatre & Dance junior Hillary Kooistra rehearses for Friday's Chinese Classical Sword & Water Sleeve Dance performance in the League Monday. CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Stop... stop... Love in the air Athletes in STOP! WHERE: Northwood II ;medicine WHERE: Stone Road WHEN: Sunday at about 11:30 a.m. WHAT: Two subjects were involved in a vehicle col- lision, University Police reported. One was cited for failingto obey a stop sign. No injuries were reported. WHEN: Sunday at about 11:20 p.m. WHAT: A subject claimed she was assaulted by a known individual on Feb. 14, and that the suspect later broke into her resi- dence, University Police reported. Drama at the Friend or foe? theatre WHERE: East Quad WHEN: Sunday at about 10:30 p.m. WHAT: A suspect was allegedly assaulted by a known individual, Univer- sity Police reported. The suhject reported the assault occured around 7 p.m. The alledged assailant was not immediately located. WHERE: Walgreen Drama Center WHEN: Sunday at about 7:20 p.m. WHAT: Suspects reported an apparent confrontation hetween individuals in the parking lot, Univer- sity Police reported. One 66-year-old subject was arrested for assault. WHAT: Student athletes interested in pursuing careers in medicine are invited to attend this infor- mational workshop. WHO: The Career Center WHEN: Today, 8-10 p.m. WHERE: Ross Academic Center When blooms go b ad WHAT: The public is invited to attend this infor- mational presentation on the dangers of certain algae hlooms for humans, animals and water quality. WHO: Sierra Cluh of Huron Valley WHEN: Today from 7:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Matthaei Botani- cal Gardens Guitar concert WHAT: One of Africa's most well-known guitar- ists and musicians, Habib Koite, will perform some of his unique, self-taught melodies. His newest album explores the strengths of the African continent. Gen- eral admission is $20. WHO: Habib Koite WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHERE: The Ark CORRECTIONS *A previous version of "Ancient fossils from India on display in 'U' museum" attributed a quote to Smith, who was not quoted in the article. The quote should have been attributed to Jeffrey Wilson, associ- ate professor of earth and enviornmental sciences. 0 Please report any error in the Daily to correc- tions@michigandaily.com. This spring, astronomers are expected, for the first time, to witness a black, hole as it envelops a cloud of gas about 26,000 light-years from Earth, The New York Times reported. The event could give insight into the nature of cosmic phenomena. Football recruit Law- rence Marshall suf- fered the loss of his father and grandfather in the two months before his senior season. Still, he overcame his loss and remained one of Michigan's top commits. >> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS, PAGE 7 Members of the U.S. armed forces used food stamps to purchase $103.6 million worth of gro- ceries in fical year 2013, CBS News reported. The spike in food stamp usage may be linked to high unemployment rates among military spouses. 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The Cognitive Science major is an interdepartmental major, jointly administered by the departments of linguistics, philosophy and psychology. A cognitive science executive committee oversees student progress toward completing -H major requirements. "It doesn't respect depart- mental or disciplinary boundar- ies," said Linguistics Prof Sam Epstein, who is in charge of the new major and teaches the gateway introductory course Cognitive Science 200 with Psy- chology Prof. Rick Louis. "It's a multidisciplinary effort." The major offers four differ- ent tracks - computation and cognition, decision, language and philosophy of mind-and students select one of them when they declare the major. In addition to the major's require- ments, students must fulfill course requirements and elec- tives from their chosen track's department. "This is a really fast-emerg- ing and new multidisciplinary field of inquiry and we thought it was important for (the Uni- versity) to offer training and education in this field," Epstein said. "There was no cognitive science initiative at (the Uni- H-M versity) going on. We think it's a fascinating field of inquiry about how humans think and choose, and what rational deci- sions consist of." Epstein said the vast num- ber of post-graduation career options is one of the benefits of the new major. "There's countless fields that you could end up in, includ- ing A.L and computer science, ergonomics, research on multi- tasking, and a myriad of fields of inquiry in psychology, in philosophy, in linguistics and mixtures of fields," he said. "It should provide students with a pretty rich set of career oppor- tunities." LSA junior Nathaniel Price, who is still deciding between the philosophy and computa- tion and cognition tracks, said he is interested in using his degree to pursue his interests in machine learning and artificial intelligence. "I really want to use my com- puter science background and apply it to that, as well as the cognitive science background," he said. Until he heard about the new cognitive science concentra- tion in one of his classes, Price planned to double major in com- puter science and philosophy. "I was going to take a lot of the cognitive science-y, phi- losophy courses that the Uni- versity offers," he said, "Instead of doing just purely philosophy, this gave me that chance to not only take those philosophy courses I was planning on tak- ing anyways, but also a lot of cool psychology classes and to ... apply some of my computer sci- ence (credits) to that degree as well." The Cognitive Science major was introduced one semester after the implementation of the Health and Fitness Leadership program in the School of Kine- siology. The School of Kinesiol- ogy created the new major in See MAJORS, Page 3 Fourteen kiosk locations will house 125 'blue bikes' for members'use By MICHAEL SUGERMAN Daily Staff Reporter Three years ago, University President Mary Sue Coleman unveiled a $14 million invest- ment in several sustainability efforts that would affect both the University and the city of Ann Arbor. One of these efforts included the implementation of a bike-sharing program. 1n May, this goal will be realized with the beginning of ArborBike. Since August 2013, the Ann Arbor City Council has been working in tandem with the University and the Clean Ener- gy Coalition, a local non-profit dedicated to the promotion of energy-independent communi- ties, to ensure the program's success. This collaboration included attaining federal, city and Uni- versity funds to subsidize the project. From November 2013 through January, the CEC garnered community involve- ment for the new program by hosting an online naming com- petition. Among the top con- tenders were A2Go, MiBike and ArBike, but ultimately, the service was christened Arbor- Bike on Feb. 5. The CEC is now seeking final approval of its 14 kiosk locations from the city and the University. In total, these will house 125 bicycles, or "blue bikes," CEC Project Manager Nick Helm- holdt said. These stations will serve both downtown Ann Arbor and the University, with kiosks scat- tered across the Main Street area, the State Street and South University areas, as well as throughout North Campus and Central Campus. Stephen Dolen, executive director of parking and trans- portation services, said the pro- gram will yield a benefit for the entire Ann Arbor community, whether they are locals or stu- dents, faculty and staff and the University. "If you're on North Campus and wanting to get to Central Campus and not take the bus or have to walk and the weather's nice enough, you'll be able to jump on a bicycle and ride it from there to here," Dolen said. LSA freshman Elisabeth Brennen brought her bike from home and used it in the fall semester to bike back and forth between classes and said she would gladly make use of acam- pus-wide bike-share program. "It ended up not being worth it to bring (my bike) all the way from home and then have it be sitting out to rust in the winter," Brennen said. "Having a bike share program would've been nice because I only used it once or twice a week." Dolen added that faculty and staff could use ArborBike to get to meetings quickly and efficiently without driving and struggling to find parking. Helm- holdt added that the bike-share could act as a traffic deconges- tant and reinvigorate business in Ann Arbor. "One of the key things that' prevents people from shop- ping in parts of Ann Arbor is that, frankly, it's just difficult to access," Helmholdt said."I'd say this is a way for lots of people to access businesses that they don't necessarily frequent." Helmholdt added that the kiosk locations will be final- ized in the next eight weeks after officials ensure that the sites are compatible with one another. After this, equipment needs to be ordered, delivered and installed. The CEC is also considering a community bike-building event in May to foster excitement and knowledge about the program. However, this is still in the plan- ning stages. The CEC is also working to finalize prices for ArborBike membership, which Helmholdt said will roughly mirror those of Madison, Wisconsin's program: $5 for a 24-hour pass and $65 for an annual pass. In a September interview with The Michigan Daily, Bill Loy, who has owned the local Campus Student Bike Shop for 50 years, voiced concerns about the potential of a bike-share program, which he said would "wreck my business." Dolen said ArborBike might actually increase business for local bike shops, adding that in all the printed material he has read on bike-sharing, none have mentioned detriment to bike stores. "They complement each other," he said. "It gets people into biking. These aren't seen as long-term rentals. Ours are point-to-point. You ride it, you drop it off at the kiosk, and you're done." WILL YOU SHARE YOUR BIKE WITH US? It's built for two. _ @MICHIGANDAILY 4 A