I saw this Tweet from the FAA yesterday: https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/435609980138688512
and commented to a friend that I don't know how comfortable I'd be in that position with so many lives in my hands.

It looks like air traffic control students at CCBC Catonsville are very unhappy with the FAA's new hiring policy which opens controller job postings to all applicants and no longer gives special preference to the 120 students who graduate yearly from the agency's Collegiate Training Initiative.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...,1922713.story