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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 is  was featured in the Washington Post.