Regarding the minutes of that last "hearing," in defiance of the Ministry ruling

From:
Richard
Date:
Fri, 19 May 2006 16:58:50 -0700
To:
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Yang, Ming-Tzong

Secretary-General
National Cheng Kung University
Tainan, Taiwan

19 May 2006

Dear Professor Yang,

In view of my last email, there's something else I want to address
here, since you're so confident about your "ad hoc" committees (see your
quoted comments on the NCCU webpage
). I
already made clear in my last email that no committee can "review,"
"nullify," or even "approve" a legal Ministry ruling or the full legal
benefits of that ruling, dated 8 January 2001. If the university
continues to believe otherwise, the university must face the legal
consequences. And when I write the "university" I mean all faculty and
chairs involved in those committee hearings that show contempt for the
legal Ministry ruling of 8 January 2001. You yourself have now come out
publicly in support of the university's illegal actions and have
therefore made yourself liable to legal claims in the future.
Which brings me to the issue of the minutes of that last "hearing."
I mean, of course, "simulated" hearing, since no committee is legally
authorized to convene on issues decided in the Ministry ruling of 8
January 2001. Nonetheless, I need the minutes of that hearing to take
legal action. Let me stress that minutes of hearings should be
circulated automatically. That's the law. Since when does a faculty
member have to petition for minutes concerning decisions made about him
and go through a byzantine process that lasts for days or weeks?
Finally, since you seem to support "ad hoc" committees to decide law,
1. Why doesn't the university authorize an ad hoc committee to
determine if a student named Chen An-chuen slandered or libeled me by
writing unsupported accusations against a teacher in 1999?
2. Why doesn't the university authorize an ad hoc committee to
determine if Chiou Yuan-guey and Rufus Cook, two FLLD professors,
behaved unethically in supporting Chen An-chuen's undocumented and
secret accusations against me eight years after failing her class?
3. Why doesn't the university authorize an ad hoc committee to
determine if Liu Gi-zen, currently an Assistant Professor in my
department, slandered or libeled me, or otherwise insulted a teacher by
supporting, in court, Chen An-chuen's (initially secret) claim that she
failed my class unfairly eight years before? Mr. Liu had no proof of
this other than Ms. Chen's claim. Do you think an ad hoc committee
should investigate the basis of Mr. Liu's support or why he was hired at
our university despite this fact?
4. Why doesn't the university authorize an ad hoc committee to
investigate why the current Dean of Student Affairs, Ko Huei-chen, has
so far failed to respond to my requests to discipline Chen An-chuen for
insulting a teacher with undocumented accusations, made in secret and in
a malicious manner that went beyond merely contesting a grade eight
years before?
5. For that matter, why doesn't the university authorize an ad hoc
committee to investigate why the president of our university, Kao
Chiang, defied a Ministry ruling for more than two years and continues
to impede enforcement of the full benefits of that ruling dated 8
January 2001?
Or are "ad hoc" committees used at our university to impede justice
rather than to enforce justice?
Let me remind you yet again: no American professor will be deprived
of legal rights or human dignity at National Cheng Kung University
without full legal consequences to all parties involved.

Sincerely,

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

PS: I doubt if it matters much, but your email address is mistyped
on the university's webpage, omitting the "e" that belongs before "mail"
after the at-sign (@).