Chinese students find professor’s language on syllabus hurtful, disturbing

Sep 7, 2020

Peipei Liu watched from afar last semester as the coronavirus devastated her home city of Wuhan, China. So when she saw that a Syracuse University professor referred to the virus as the “Wuhan Flu” in his course syllabus, she felt shocked and angered.

SU placed chemistry professor Jon Zubieta on administrative leave Aug. 25 after images circulated online of his course syllabus, in which he calls COVID-19 the “Wuhan Flu” and “Chinese Communist Party Virus.” The university said the language was “derogatory” and “offensive to Chinese, international and Asian-Americans.”

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