Regarding outstanding obligations of officials at National ChengKung University

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richard
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Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:40:48 +0800
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Ministry of Education
Taipei, Taiwan

26 September 2005

Dear Ministry of Education Officials,

As you know, National Cheng Kung University officials have been in
violation of Ministry laws for many years now. The president of our
university, Kao Chiang, apparently decided he didn't know what to do
when your Ministry Appeal Committee ruled in my favor in January, 2001.
It took NCKU more than two years, while Kao Chiang was president, before
it issued contracts that should have been issued immediately after the
ruling.
Delay of even one day would have been enough to get an official
discharged elsewhere. Most educated people (and even many uneducated
people) would understand what it means when an appellant wins an appeal
ruling. Some other governments would find anyone in noncompliance with
such a ruling as guilty of obstructing justice, a serious offense.
Kao Chiang should be made to understand that Taiwan is a nation of
laws, not officials. It's a nation of laws, not lawyers. It's a nation
of laws, not relationships. Relationships are good in tea houses; but
only laws work in universities. It's the same principle that protects
Taiwan citizens (including Kao Chiang's friends or relatives) when they
matriculate or teach at American or British universities.
Kao Chiang should also be made to respect the dignity of his
colleagues. Moreover, he should be made to understand that his
colleagues will defend their dignity, at whatever cost, within the legal
channels of the law.
Yet National Cheng Kung University has still not officially
apologized for violating my legal rights since 1999. Neither NCKU nor
Kao Chiang has apologized for holding secret meetings, for circulating a
secret letter, for accusing me without review, or for spreading
malicious gossip about me under the cover of "official meetings." Kao
Chiang has still not apologized for his delay in enforcing a legal
Minsitry ruling of 2001, forcing me to repeatedly travel outside Taiwan
during this period, including once to South Korea in the middle of winter.
Then there's the outstanding issue of Chen An-chuen, a student who
wrote a secret letter that was secretly circulated and used in my
dismissal hearings. This student has neither apologized nor been
punished. Instead she received employment at our university (she is now
a part-time instructor) and is completing her thesis, as I understand.
I find it insulting that NCKU officials acted on Ms. Chen's secret
and obviously absurd, even malicious, letter in a matter of days, while
my legitimate complaint has been ignored by Dean of Student Affairs, Ko
Huei-chen, for several years. Ms. Chen writes a secret letter claiming
she failed a class eight years before and that letter is handled in an
"official" manner; I complain about this student's behavior and I'm
given every kind of excuse why my complaint cannot be handled.
I wish to make clear to the Ministry of Education that I will
continue to exercise all options available to me within the law,
including media exposure, until these issues are resolved within
principles of human rights and laws. I understand there will be judgment
after death (God has no use for relationships), but I will do everything
within my rights to effect judgment on this earth as well.
I urge the Ministry of Education, once again, to effect the
punishment and dismissal of all officials involved in the mishandling of
this case. Protecting the reputation of our university is more important
than protecting the careers of these officials.

Sincerely,

Richard de Canio
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
National Cheng Kung University
Tainan, Taiwan