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f rom $100 to $1000 depending on in the Thresher and in the faculty be composed of students, faculty, by Andy Kopplin In a two-fold effort to reduce crime and to clear unsolved cases, the Rice Campus Police are d e v e l o p i n g p l a n s f o r a "Crimestoppers" program to be modeled a f t e r the successful Crimestoppers efforts employed by the City of Houston and by New Mexico State University on the college level. Nationwide, the 475 Crimestoppers agencies solicit citizen assistance in solving crimes by b r o a d c a s t i n g d r a m a t i c r e p r e sen ta t ions of cases on local television and pub l i sh ing the details in the local press. Readers and viewers are given a te lephone number to anonymously call if they can provide any pert inent information on the publicized case or any other unsolved crime. If their information subsequently l e a d s t o a n a r r e s t a n d conviction,the informant collects a