#30 Some serious "butt-kicking" by a future Assemblyman

But First......

The infant known as Baby Fae was born in the desert town of Barstow, California with a heart defect that's fatal within days. The parents chose an experimental treatment, and surgeon Leonard Bailey placed inside the infant the transplanted heart of a baboon …

Many of us remember the news media roaming LLU campus in October 1984 after the historic, and one time, baboon heart transplant of Baby Fae.  This controversial procedure was a stepping stone for Dr. Bailey to perform the first successful infant allograft heart transplant a year later.

Now........  On to Woody.......

I won't reproduce the single spaced legal page size dressing-down that Jim Wood, the DSA representative, (and editor of the Ballburnisher), printed in the Ballburnisher concerning the "alleged" leadership of the DSA.....but a few highlights.

--He call to task the various DSA officers for accountability of costs and information.  The DSA president, Greg Mitchell, called a Student Life Committee meeting for those representatives to give such an accounting.  None of them showed up.  Woody was not happy.

--He reminded all dental students that "a flurry of activity from the DSA as present officers try to improve their images in pursuit of a higher position in the DSA hierarchy.  "I hope you remember that the DSA has NOT accomplished this year for the improvement of the student body when you consider who to cast your vote for in April".  Woody was not happy.

--And this is my favorite....."Our class has been singled out as "expecting too much" out of DSA, of being too critical and scrutinizing.  DSA is funded by student tuition, yours and mine, and therefore we have a right to expect something for our money.  So maybe it is about time that we voiced our concern for their inactivity".  Woody was not happy.

--And a look into the future for Jim........"The DSA should not be a platform for the "would-be" politician who are all smooth talk and no action.  It should be a medium for concerned individuals to unite the student body and work for its benefit".  Woody is planning ahead.

POSTCRIPT:  Our  class "took over" the DSA the next year to put the train back on the track, with Kelly as President, Denny B. as Vice-Pres., Richard Kunihira as secretary, Bruce as treasurer and Woody as PR officer and Ballburnisher Editor.  

Go Eighty6'ers!!!!!!!!!!