Letter to NCKU president, Kao Chiang

4/4/2004 7:47 PM
Subject: Regarding remaining issues of the illegal dismissal
caseTo: Kao Chiang
BCC: Ray Dah-tong ,
Paul

Kao Chiang
President
National Cheng Kung University
Tainan, Taiwan

4 April 2004

Dear President Kao,

This is to remind you yet again of remedial issues related to the
illegal dismissal case against me in 1999. These issues include a formal
nullification of the illegal "hearing" of May 2003 on accusations already
rejected in the Ministry ruling of 8 January 2001. If those accusations
could be revived, then that final Ministry ruling was not in fact "final,"
but only "advisory." Therefore I suggest you check the law on the meaning
of a "final" appeal. I expect a nullification (formal cancellation) of that
"hearing" as well as a formal apology from the university for holding it in
the first place.
Regarding the other matter of the student involved in misconduct,
please be reminded of the issues involved:
First, no student should be allowed to maliciously discredit a teacher
without formal penalty of, and an apology from, the student.
Second, no dean should be allowed to decide for herself which faculty
complaints to act upon and which to ignore.
Third, further delay in the handling of this matter, forcing me to go
outside the university for remedy, will publicly discredit both the student
and officials involved in the mishandling of this case from the beginning.
Finally, please let me advise you to instruct your office personnel to
speak courteously with me over the telephone when discussing these issues.
If there were administrative remedy at our university, I wouldn't have to
phone in the first place. To be treated discourteously by a secretary while
reminding officials to do what the law requires is adding insult to injury.
I have suffered grievous wrongs from officials at our university and I
intend to right those wrongs, whatever the cost or whatever it takes to do
so. In the meantime, I expect to be treated with the respect due all
faculty at any accredited university.
I remind you again that this case has lasted far too long. The facts,
including countless legal violations and a grievous lack of moral principles
on the part of our officials, are plain to everyone, except (it seems) those
in our university administration. Fortunately, these matters will be
resolved outside our university, by those who abide by laws and moral
principles, thus advancing the future of Taiwan democracy.

Sincerely,


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