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Flying for a cause
Find out why pilots raced in the sky to end domestic violence.
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New age photography
Pinhole exhibit offers a new photo perspective.
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Tuesday, October 2,2007
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CIA recruits
N" student
operatives
areer fair offers
government,
nonprofit jobs
By Kirk Cooper
Views Editor
Recruiters from the U.S.
intelligence community are
searching NT for students to
fill federal ranks.
CIA Officials were on
campus from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. Wednesday as part of
the Government and Nonprofit
Volunteer and Job Fair held
in the University Union's
Silver Eagle Suite. A separate,
secondary information session
was held at 5 p.m. in Chestnut
Hall.
April Kuykendall, assistant
director at the Career Center,
said the CIA has been on
campus at least once before
in Sept. 2006. She said that
when it comes to working
for a government agency like
the CIA, employers often get
specific on what they look
for.
"Many are looking for
communication skills, very
specific majors, personality,
verbal and written [language]
skills and professionalism,"
Kuykendall said.
"They also want to know
if you can deal with difficult
situations, traveling and time
constraints."
"Debbie," a recruiter with
the CIA at the job fair, said
the NT event is part of a larger
effort at universities across the
country to find new employees
following expansion after the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"After 9/11, we received over
150,000 resumes," Debbie said.
"This is part of our outreach
to tell people what the CIA is
all about."
Although the agency
hires employees to fill tradi-
tional intelligence-gathering
roles as part of the National
Clandestine Service, it also
has posts available in finance,
business and intelligence anal-
ysis, and offers internships
to students still in college,
Debbie said.
Another CIA recruiter, who
declined to give a last name
and identified himself only
as "Tim," said a lot of public
misperceptions surround the
agency.
He said that contrary to
popular belief, the agency is
accommodating to families
and that work doesn't always
involve the glamour portrayed
in movies and on television.
"We're not all cocktail
parties and James Bonds ...
terrorists don't sit around
having cocktails at diplomatic
talks," Tim said. "We're dealing
with people who are less
than honorable, and usually
they're not in a position of
honor or integrity. Working
in back alleys aren't all that
uncommon."
Tim said agents must be
willing to make some sacri-
fices in their personal lives. In
2001, he was stationed abroad
and was away from his fiancé
for holidays.
"I spent that Christmas in
a mud-covered tent, eating
MREs [meals ready to eat] in
the rain," Tim said.
Debbie said applying for
a job with the organiza-
tion is a drawn-out process
lasting anywhere from 12 to
18 months. Applicants are
subject to extensive back-
ground checks that pry up to
seven years into their pasts,
and aspiring operatives must
pass a battery of psychological
and other tests before being
accepted.
Ultimately, though, she said
the agency looks at passion
and willingness to serve the
country, and that she has been
immensely satisfied with her
work.
"I'm two weeks away from
retirement and it's bitter-
sweet," Debbie said. "I wake
up in the mornings and I love
what I do; I look forward to
going to work."
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'It wasn't God's way'
T _ . A . „ . T „ . „ W
By Aaron Bracamontes
StaffWriter
As hundreds of NT
students gath-
ered outside Jody's
Fountain, some
bowed their heads and closed
their eyes while others shed
tears, but all remembered the
life of NT student Melanie
Goodwin, found dead last
week at the age of 19.
A candle lit service for
Goodwin on Monday night
was hosted by Steve Newton,
Mansfield freshman, Rev.
Gammy Gaston of the Denton
Wesley Foundation and Tim
Glaze, Carrollton junior, on
guitar.
"I want to thank everyone
for coming out to this candle-
light service for Melanie
Goodwin," Newton said. "I
know Melanie has changed
every one of you here."
Gaston asked members of
the group to say words that
reminde < I them of Goodwin.
Jc y, passionate, love, beau-
til ¡i! and unique were some
of the words used.
"It was a tragedy that
happen to Melanie," jaston
said. "It wasn't God's way."
A memorial service was
held Saturday at St. Andrew's
United Methodist Church in
Arlington, Goodwin's home-
town church,
for close
family and ccT
friends. The / In
family had
her remains aroun
cremated, *
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family. tilClV
More
than 1,500
mourners
I looked
around at all
the people
and everyone
had tears in
their eyes."
of the service was played
for guests to watch in other
rooms of the church, Bobo
said.
"The family would like to
thank everyone that came
out to celebrate Melanie's
life,' Bobo
said. "There
i j was a lot of
}kCU singing; there
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several
7VP<s solemn
y moments,
Jessica Niccum as well as
uplifting
filled the red moments ol
brick chapel,
which usually houses 420 at
maximum capacity, to attend
the service, Bobo said.
A closed circuit broadcast
laughter and
an audio clip of Goodwin
singing, he said.
Jessica Niccum said she
knew Goodwin through
her best friend, and wished
she could have known her
better.
"Every room was full to the
max," Niccum said. "I looked
around at all the people and
everyone had tears in their
eyes."
After the hour and a half
long service several cars still
filled the parking lot and
nearby grass lot, as mourners
spent time talking to the
family, said Mark Annick,
media consultant for the
Goodwin family.
Several students also
stayed past the last song
of Monday night's service
to embrace each other as
the others walked nto the
night.
Toward the end of the
service, Gaston asked
students to say what it was
the needed after the news
of joodwin's death.
Words from the crowd
were: strength, love, closure
and justice.
Above Photo by Chase Martinez / Staff Photographer
Suspect still at
large, reward
offered
A reward has been
issued for any infor-
mation leading to
the arrest of the
prime suspect in the death
of Melanie Goodwin
Police are still searching
for Ernesto Reyes, 20, who is
being charge ¡with murder
in connection with the death
of Goodwin and has been
missing since Wednesday,
Sgt. John Singleton said.
On Monday, Matthew
Bobo, spokesman for the
Goodwin family, announced
that a reward of $10,000 has
been established for any
information leading to the
arrest of Reyes, according
to a Carrollton Police
Department news release.
Anyone with nforma-
tion can call the tip line
at 972-466-4775, however,
anyone who sees Reyes is
encouraged to directly call
911, Singleton said.
"The family wants the
persons responsible for this
crime brought to justice,"
Bobo said a] er the memo-
rial on Saturday.
On Thursday, Carrollton
Police arrested Donovan
Reeves Young, 19, on suspi-
cion of tampering with
evidence charges; accusing
him of helping Reyes destroy
Goodwin's body, Singleton
said.
He was taken into custody
at the Carrollton police
station after he was volun-
tarily interviewed about the
case, Singleton said.
Singleton said that Young
bailed out of the Dallas
County Jail on Sunday, but
online records could not be
accessed.
Young was not available
for comment and his family
declined to comment.
Goodwin was last seen
at a convenient store Sept.
25 leaving with Reyes,
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Photo by Justin Tennison / Staff Photographer
Guests lined up outside St. Andrew's United Methodist Church in
Arlington 30 minutes before the memorial service began.
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Photo by Khai Ha/Intern
Mourners lifted candles after the choir group Voices of Praise sang, "The
sun is going to shine."
accordin to an arrest
warrant £ ffidavit.
"He supplied the gas
can and he gave money for
the purchase of the gas,"
Singleton said of Young.
According to the affidavit,
Reyes went to Young's apart-
ment sometime between 2
and 4 a.m. and told Young
"he killed someone, didn
mean to and needed to get
rid of the body."
Young saw the body of a
female in the back seat of the
car Reyes was driving, iden-
tified as Goodwin's 2002 red
Saturn, who "looked obvi-
ously dead," according to
the affidavit.
After Young gave Reyes
the can and money, Reyes
left the apartment and
returned "and told Young
that he burned the body a
few blocks away," according
to the affidavit. The affidavit
goes on to say that Young
told police that the next
day, after a failed attempt
to blow up the vehicle with
a sock in the gas tank, they
went to Denton on Dallas
Drive, where the vehicle
was found abandoned.
Young said he gave Reyes
a ride after Reyes burned
the car.
A phone call Reyes made
from the store was traced to
his ■ ;irlfriend's house, posi-
tive ly identified Reyes and
told police that "she had
observed singed hair and
burns on Reyes' forearms,"
according to the affidavit.
Money for the reward
came from "the generosity
of the employees of the
Southern Reservation Office
of American Airlines as well
as numerous friends of the
Goodwin family," according
to the news release.
"Our focus is the location
of Mr. Reyes and getting
him into custody to ask him
questions," Singleton said.
Campus
wire ess
network
improving
Eaglenet peaks
at 1,000 users at
any given time
By Caleb White
Staff Writer
NT's wireless service
Eaglenet continues to expand
its coverage and improve
reception across campus.
"We adopted a very basic
802.11b [version] four years
ago and installed that in many
locations around campus,"
said Joseph Adamo, director
of communication services
at NT.
"It's since been expanded
to cover just about the whole
campus. Any new construc-
tion that goes in is basically
blanketing coverage... because
we need it there or students
congregate there. We also
support conferences at the
Gateway Center."
Wireless local area networks
technology was first stan-
dardized in 1997. The orig-
inal 802.11 technology quickly
became obsolete, prompting
the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers to create
the current standard, 802.11b,
which is more than five times
faster. The name 802.11 refers
to the group that created the
standard.
Because wireless Internet
signals do not usually seep
out of buildings, NT installed
outdoor hotspots in front of
and behind the University
Union and between the Art
and Business Administration
Buildings.
High demand and function-
ality drive growth. Last year,
Eaglenet averaged 425 users
at any given time and peaked
at 1000 users, according to
the Eaglenet wireless network
Web site.
"We are also in the process
of p utting in access poin ts that
can support 802.11 g, which
is a little faster, in addition
to 802.11b," Adamo said. "We
currently primarily support
802.11b because it is a least
common denominator. Anyone
who has wireless on their
notebooks can operate on
802.11b."
The usability of the system
with new laptops also creates
security risks.
"Keeping rogue access
points, those that aren't autho-
rized, off the network is prob-
ably the biggest thorn in my
side," Adamo said. "Students
an d even faculty members that
have a built-in access point
can turn on their laptop and
begin radiating the signal. By
state law, we cannot provide
unauthorized access to state
facilities and the network is
a state facility. We work with
housing to get those signals
turned down."
Denton was one of the
first cities in the nation to
offer public wireless broad-
band services in 2000 but the
contractor Metricom filed for
bankruptcy after the network
was running for only nine
months, according to a 2007
Denton City Council meeting
agenda.
More recently, Denton
installed free wireless Internet
access at South Branch Library
but demand is cool, averaging
only 57 users a month, said
Alex Pettit, the out-going chief
information officer for the city
of Denton.
Low population density, low
demand, hidden costs asso-
ciated with 'anchor tenancy'
and competition with private
wireless providers erode the
economic viability of a public
wireless network, Pettit said.
He said Sprint will bring
Wi-Max, which is 10 times
faster than current Wi-Fi, to
Denton in October of 2008.
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