Professor banned for calling virus ‘Wuhan Flu or Chinese Communist Party Virus’

A chemistry professor has been banned from teaching at Syracuse University for jokingly listing the school’s COVID-19 rules and regulations under the headline “Wuhan Flu or Chinese Communist Party Virus” on a syllabus. “Syracause talks a big game when it comes to free speech, promising its students and faculty the full array of expressive rights,” said Zach Greenberg of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which has written a letter to Syracuse officials demanding the professor, Jon Zubieta, be reinstated. “Yet the university has become an inhospitable place for the free exchange of ideas, and the administration seems almost…