Re: Enforcement of the Ministry Ruling

2/12/2004 10:52 PM
Subject: Please contact me about a FINAL ENFORCEMENT of the Ministry ruling
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
To: Kao Chiang

Kao Chiang,
President,
National Cheng Kung University
Tainan, Taiwan

13 February 2004

Dear President Kao,

I cannot tolerate further delay in the final enforcement of the Ministry
ruling. "Administrative remedy" that lasts more than four years is a
TRAVESTY of justice and of law.
Officials at our university engaged in countless legal rights
violations that would embarrass and discredit any university in the world,
including those that don't subscribe to democratic process. Even in those
countries not subscribing to democratic principles, no university would defy
a legal Ministry ruling for more than two years as your administration did.
I will do everything in my power to see that officials involved in
misconduct are punished. But right now my concern is that you
No university would delay for two years a formal complaint against a
student who wrote a secret malicious letter to discredit a teacher.
No university would hold secret meetings to discredit a professor, as
our university did in 1999.
No university would hold appeal hearings only to announce to the
appellant, after he wins, that as a foreigner he had to be reviewed again.
No university would continually revive accusations following several
final appeals, using the "review" process to harass faculty.
No university administration would defy a legal Ministry ruling for
more than two years, as you did.
No university would argue, after a final Ministry ruling favored the
appellant, that the appellant had no right to appeal, since he was a
foreigner.
No university would argue foreigners were not protected by university
laws, especially when that university has sister universities in law-abiding
countries.
Our offiicials, under your administration, then contested that legal
ruling in court.
Our officials, forced to comply with the ruling, then tried to deny the
full legal benefits of that ruling.
Our officials have refused to apologize.
Our officials have refused me full back pay.
Our officials have refused compensation.
Our officials on a "review" committtee revived accusations rejected in
the Ministry ruling of 8 January 2001.
Our officials then defied both the Ministry ruling and the University
Appeals Committee, which rejected this action.
Our officials on the University Appeals Committee then ruled against
their own ruling to accept the "review" decision.
Our officials, including Dean Ko Huei-chen, of the Office of Student
Affairs, now refuse to punish a student whose secret letter was circulated
at my dismissal hearings in 1999, although she is currently a graduate
student and part-time teacher at our university.
This is unacceptable, Professor Kao. Believe me when I tell you, NO
AMERICAN PROFESSOR WILL BE DENIED RIGHTS AT OUR UNIVERSITY.