LAWSUIT: UCLA Dean Urged Student to Falsely Accuse Mentor Prof. She Refused. So Dean Did.
In 2018 when UCLA professor of dentistry Kang Ting testified against a senior official in a sexual harassment proceeding, it put a target on his back. The official whom he testified against, Senior Associate Dean Sotirios Tetradis, tried to get the student who accused Tetradis to falsely accuse Ting, her mentor, according to court documents reviewed by the Daily Bruin.
Professor Ting and doctoral student Justine Tanjaya have both filed lawsuits against the University of California. Ting’s suit, which names Tetradis and Dentistry Dean Paul Krebsbach among others, claims his testimony got Tetradis removed as chair of orthodontics. That’s when the “retaliatory abuse” started, though Ting claimed School of Dentistry faculty were already harassing and discriminating against him because he’d requested a leave of absence the previous year to care for his ailing father.
In the doctoral student’s lawsuit, Tanjaya claimed that the Senior Associate Dean, Tetradis, urged her to file a false Title IX complaint against Ting. She declined. Dean Tetradis went ahead and made false sexual harassment allegations against Ting on Tanjaya’s behalf, according to court documents.
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