[Fwd: Regarding the minutes of that last "hearing," in defiance of the Ministry ruling of 8 January 2001]

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Subject:	Regarding the minutes of that last "hearing," in defiance of the Ministry ruling of 8 January 2001
Date:	Fri, 19 May 2006 16:50:26 -0700
From:	Richard <invictus2002@yahoo.com>
To:	em50030@email.ncku.edu.tw
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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 (@).