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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.
Ash stressed that the course is
neither a speed reading course
nor a course designed to im
prove study skills. “We really
|feel this is a course for any stu
dent who feels he can profit
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cash reward up> to $1,000. The reward.
Crime Stoppers’ Board of Dire- Deputy Charles Owen said
the reward for the recovered
stolen vehicle was about $50 or
$100. In the money orders case,
it was $500 — although that re
ward has not been claimed yet.
For a featured Crime of the
Week, the reward is $1,000 if a
caller provides information
within a week that leads to arrest
and indictment. 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
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spring. Each section usually has
about 15 students. The class is
taught by eight doctoral stu
dents who are training in the
field of psychological coun
seling.
The course also is offered to
all students during the summer.
However, Ash said the course is
being changed to help provi
sional students — those fresh
men admitted during the sum
mer sessions on a probationary
approval period.
Ash said most of the class eva-
lutations and feedback on the
course is positive. “I think the
majority of students who take
the course find it useful,” he
said.
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