Unradical Dons in Our Time

This is one of the many incidents and I had to pay dearly.

I was a Third Year Medical Student.

This was the time we even had industrial action, even if a single human hair was in our String Hopper Evening Meal. 

We could finish 30 string hoppers effortlessly.

This day was ordinary.

I had come after a game of Hockey and had a bath and I was having a quiet time in my adopted room in Jayathilake Halls of Residence. My regular Halls of Residence was Arunachalem which I really like. Right in front of the Univerity Grounds where we had a major tussle with our Army and also P. M. Dudley Senanayake. 

Yes, P. M could come and address the students, those days.

I heard a commotion and came up to the balcony and I was watching from above. 

I was not part to the incident but a passive watchman.

Closer look at the scene, I saw five of our dons having a heated argument with the students. They were numerically outnumbered.

We then had the Faculty Club, literally the University Bar with low priced alcohol.

These guys have had a round of drinks and were probably high in spirits. 

One of the insane guys, most likely Brian Seneviratna had had proposed, "Let Us  go and catch some senior guys ragging juniors" or something to that effect.

This was going on for long with no sight of ending, now growing into a tussle with almost the fists  landing on dons.

I thought this is a bad joke and entered the dons side and said to my seniors these are my teachers and they ought to be released. Then of course the sane seniors intervened and we went on our own ways.

It is was getting dark and the dons were drunk and they could not physically identify them to panish.

This Brian Seneviratna guy had called the our President of the Union to hold an emergency meeting.

In the meeting he demanded that I should give the names of the guys involved. 

I said NO WAY and I did not know most of them and had I known them, I would not volunteer. 

I thought the incided ended there but not really.

I had to sacrifice my Second Class in the Finals. I was confident I would at least get a second class. 

Now I think it was a blessing, I hated medicine and I would have become a hopeless clinician except perhaps in Neonatal Medicine.

One of my close relation was the Assitant Registrar and he told me I missed the second class by a wisker and that guy Brian Seneviratna stongly opposed me getting the class I deserved. Had I not reached that level this guy would have failed me in the Finals.

I confronted him and said he won't last long in the Facilty.

I reported  all the sodid things he did as a Seconded Officer from the Deparment of Health. 

He did not last long.

Bad Egg by all means.

I do not know what happened to him afterwards.

No interest at all to know and I vouched myself never to join the Faculty. 

Then again there was another Professor of Medicine who was distorting Buddhism and I confronted him and said teach Medicine not Buddhism. 

He did some below par work on Rebirth which is my current interest.

Fate was such, I ended up in Faculty of Dental Sciences and prerended to be more Dental than Medical but I have a bad set of teeth due to lot of Sugars as a kid. I love sugary stuff and thankfully I not a diebetic.

Then, of course, Professor B. R. N. Mendis hand picked me to lead the team of very efficient Dental dons to develop the Faculty of Dental Sciences from the ground up.

J. I. C. A lead Dr. Handa and Hagiwara were leading the team of Japanese experts and I was in charge of developing the Computer Network. We were short of money and Kandy Lions helped us. To save money I was involved in training a guy to manage or doing the wiring in house. It was a Samba Neteotk and those days PHP Admin was my interest. Not given up on Linux Just now trying to mount Gnome on KDE.

Failed.

GDM failed and trying SDDM.