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local Battalion/Page 3 January 21, 1982 "Local Crime Stoppers credited with two solutions by Jennifer Afflerbach Battalion Reporter ll After seven weeks in opera tion, the Brazos Valley Crime Stoppers program has helped solve two cases and provided tips on numerous others, Linda Lively, Brazos County Sheriff Department, said Tuesday. I Each Tuesday Crime Stop- iers focuses on a local unsolved crime with a Crime of the Week program. The program airs on the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. news on KBTX-TV. The Battalion and iie Bryan-College Station Eagle ■so print an account of each iteek’s program. Anyone with nformatipn on the crime is Irged to call Crime Stoppers at 775-1 IPS. I Crimes that have been fea tured on the program include a »pe, a hit-and-run accident and Kveral thefts. None of the fea- lired Crimes of the Week have been solved. I However, through anony- lious calls, one stolen vehicle Has been recovered. In another nr case, $212,000 worth of money orders stolen from a local busi ness was recovered. Crime Stoppers receives an average of one call a day that can be investigated, Lively said. The calls are screened for validity. They received 34 calls in Decem ber. So far in January, they have gotten 13 calls that could be turned over to be investigated, she said. “A lot of the calls are perti nent to the cases,” Lively said. “We get a lot of legitimate tips.” Lavely said the callers often begin with, “This probably isn’t important, but....” “What they (callers) think is something we don’t need to know is really good informa tion,” Lively said. “On the whole, the public is really work ing good with us.” Callers remain anonymous. A caller is given an I.D. number, which is the Sheriffs Depart ment’s only connection with him. If the tip leads to a grand jury indictment in any unsolved Study skills aided by psych course By VENITA McCELLON Battalion Reporter B Although most students may m t be concerned about tests this ■irly in the semester, midterm fekaminations already are loom- ■g on the horizon. One course, oilered by the Department of Educational Psychology, may help prevent the usual pre-exam jitters. |j Educational Psychology 101 is a course designed to help stu dents improve their study skills. Dr. Michael J. Ash, associate professor of educational psychology and one of the prog ram coordinators, said the tcourse can provide skills that "felp improve the students’ clas sroom learning. B The class, open only to fresh- ™cn in the fall semester, is avail- '“■'able to all students in the spring, bash theH Topics such as vocabulary de- allv ansi T lo P ment ’ schedulin g stU(1 y time, notetaking and test-taking t Strategies are stressed. In addi- imck wilt )j ie C o ur se offers an oppor- some i (unity for students to evaluate tnd obsectbeir vocational interests, lat’reyiiB “Studying study skills in a [Vacuum can be a little tedious,” look like Ash said. Because of this, Ash “Tm inili'd Dr. Ernest Goetz, co coordinator of the program, assign course assignments to jjtecific classes in the student’s )n tor schedule. For example, after the troduction of flash cards as a earning tool in educational the student might ave penc m you. il he final Dan. 1 _ io. Mini be required to produce cards de- fair to |g ned f° r one °f their other Icourses. 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To claim his re ward, the caller meets an un identified person who has been briefed on the case, gives his cal ler I.D. number and receives his money, Lively said. There are 50 Crime Stoppers programs throughout Texas, ranging from cities such as Dal las and Houston to the town of Floydada, population 3,963. Houston has the highest success rate and receives 50 to 200 phone calls a day, Owen said. Other states have Crime Stop pers programs as well. Owen said he is pleased with the success of the local program so far, but that it will take about six months to get it off the ground. Shreveport, La., didn’t solve a case for five months, he said, and it took Abilene live months to get its first call. A similar Crime Stoppers program, which handles federal crimes such as drug trafficking, is in operation statewide. The statewide Crime Stoppers phone number is 1-800-252- TIPS. from an improvement of study skills,” he said. 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