X-Files fan believes career path will prove the truth
  is out there

  Don Campbell, The Ottawa Citizen - Friday 22 May 1998

  If Ajuki Ike ever achieves her goal of becoming a
  police officer, the person she would most like to
  have present her with her badge would be FBI
  Agent Dana Scully.

  And if the fictional agent Scully can't make it,
  actress Gillian Anderson will do just fine.
 
 

  Ms. Ike, this year's recipient of the prestigious Thomas G. Flanagan
  Scholarship, makes no bones about it that the star of the popular
  television series The X-Files is the real reason she wants to wear
  blue.

  "It was Scully. I want to do that whole forensics thing just like her,"
  said Ms. Ike. "I'm intrigued by all the aspects of autopsies and the
  DNA and that type of thing.

  "I've always had an interest in becoming a police officer but once I
  started watching The X-Files, right away I wanted to work with the
  FBI. Then I got thinking, hey this is Canada, I better make that the
  RCMP. Who knows?"

  The $1,500 Flanagan scholarship, in honour of the former chief of
  the Ottawa police, was instituted in 1993 to encourage visible
  minority women to consider policing as a career.

  Ms. Ike and her family fled Uganda for safety in Canada in 1983 and
  she has never looked back.

  She received the scholarship during ceremonies at regional
  headquarters where certificates of valour and of merit were
  presented to members of the public in recognition of acts of bravery
  and assistance to the police.

  Two longtime members of the board of directors of Crime Stoppers,
  Bruce and David Hillary, were also rewarded for their dedication to
  the community.

  Ms. Ike, 19, won her scholarship on the strength of an essay,
  "Working Together For A Safer Community: Focusing On Youth."

  In it, she explores the reasons for the apparent mistrust between
  youth and police, a mistrust she admits is a two-way street.

  She also implores police to get to know the members of their
  community.

  "The most obvious and effective way is by developing a more
  personal approach towards dealing with youth," she wrote. "Learn
  the names of the teens in the neighbourhoods not after they have
  been arrested, but before they decide to do P">