A prominent union leader has called for university students to stay at home this autumn to help prevent a second wave of coronavirus – unless they are poor, black, disabled, gay or transgender. The UCU has also been criticised for highlighting a claim by a Left-wing computer scientist that 50,000 people will die if university students return this autumn. US academic is suspended for using the Chinese word for 'um' because it sounded like a racial slurBy Caroline Graham in Los Angeles for the Mail on SundayIt is an innocuous expression, but an academic has been suspended for using the Chinese word for ‘um’ because it sounded like a racial slur. Professor Patton was teaching students about Chinese business culture and how the expression ‘nee-gah’ is often used as a pause in negotiations. In a grovelling apology, it said: ‘Recently a faculty member during class used a Chinese word that sounds similar to a vile racial slur in English.

Source: Daily Mail September 05, 2020 21:20 UTC