Cheating, Bribery Scandal Hits UCLA Dental School, WaPo Features ‘Angry Asian Man’ Blog, Nisei Journalist Bill Hosokawa Passes
November 16, 2007
Students and faculty at UCLA’s prestigious school of dentistry are calling for the school’s Korean American dean to resign in the wake of allegations of preferential admissions for relatives of fat cat donors and a state licensing exam cheating scandal.
Patterns of preferential admissions charges were uncovered by the UCLA student newspaper Daily Bruin. Coming on the heels of these allegations was an L.A. Times report linking UCLA dental students to a multi-campus licensing exam cheating scam now being probed by the American Dental Association.
School of Dentistry Dean No-Hee Park in a written statement released this week stated, “I am confident that the school will emerge from current challenges stronger and even more purposeful in its mission.” He added that his program was fair and merit based.
The probe of preferential admissions policies began after a Japanese American grad student Kent Ochiai was told by a school official that a donation of $60,000 would guarantee his acceptance to UCLA’s respected orthodontics program.
IN OTHER NEWS—Veteran Nisei journalist Bill Hosokawa passed away Nov. 9. He was a longtime editor at the Denver Post. And, on a brighter note, Angry Asian Man news blogger Phil Yu
iswas featured in the Washington Post.
July 12, 2011 at 12:56 am
wow — i studied from scratch and hired a tutor and had every reason to be accepted after 3 years of 4.0 the HARD way. except that my closest academic ally was disliked by the new dean.
New dean wanted 4.0 candidates only. asian preference. had to accept persians due to contributions from daddies. if only i had known 60k would have done the job, i would gladly have taken out a loan at bloodsucker interest. the damage done to my life in being accepted to a superior school but across the country at 250K tuition, and now not getting accepted for a permanent job where i have volunteered for 2 yrs because of not knowing spanish and therefore not qualifying for fed loan payback prog in underserved area — well, very interesting. very interesting indeed. the cheaters are, by the way, doing quite well. they had exam going 3 yrs back passed among the in-crowd, board exam camera pictures (still a little novel in 2006) and had denture setups done by labs or other students who had the knack. 300/set was the going rate.