Subject: HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AT NATIONAL CHENG KUNG
UNIVERSITYTo: moe
CC: Control Yuan
Vice-President Lu
eyemail@eyemail.gio.gov.tw, peu03@mail.gio.gov.tw,
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Ministry of Education
Department of Higher Education
20 December 2003
Dear Ministry and Education Officials,
I regret to say I have lost patience with your tolerance of
incompetence and legal rights abuses at National Cheng Kung University.
If you were committed to upholding standards and laws at National Cheng
Kung University, several officials, including certainly Professor Kao
Chiang, currently acting as president of the university, would have been
dismissed by now.
I need hardly remind you that Professor Kao defied a legal
Ministry ruling for more than two years. In my country, or other
democratic countries, this could not be done without serious penalty.
I also call to your attention once again that Professor Ko
Huei-chen, currently acting as Dean of the Office of Student Affairs,
has still not responded to my request to discipline a student engaged in
misconduct or even call that student into her office for a supervised
meeting with me. Do you consider this professional conduct? If so,
then why have an Office of Student Affairs, or a dean to head that
office?
Most recently, a review committee at our university revived
accusations already formally made at a Ministry Appeal hearing, which
ruled in my favor on 8 January 2001. In law, this cannot be done. The
review ruling was doubly illegal, since it even defied our own
university appeal ruling against that decision.
Please be advised that your continued indifference to official
misconduct at our university is not in agreement with the principles of
democracy or law; nor is it in agreement with international charters of
human rights, to which Taiwan subscribes.
Sincerely,
Professor Richard de Canio.
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
National Cheng Kung University
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