New York University students in Shanghai have been committing suicide amid lockdown, while the school has sought to cover it up, Rebecca Karl claims.
“I have heard that there have been several suicides among the students already, all of it swept under the rug for the sake of NYU’s reputational convenience. Students are suffering. Many faculty are as well,” Karl wrote in the email, which was obtained by The Post.“It is very disappointing, to say the very least, to see a University faculty member traffic in misleading gossip about something so serious,” said university spokesman John Beckman.
NYU-Shanghai Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman appeared in a staged and heavily edited video for the Chinese media agency Xinhua which aired on April 21 to downplay the city’s lockdown fallout. “I am recording this video from lockdown in my apartment. Our university is now in its fourth week of online teaching,” he
“I am very proud of how positive and resilient our community has been during the B.A. 2 variant wave in Shanghai.” NYU-Shanghai Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman appeared in a staged and heavily edited video to downplay lockdown fallout.The Chinese Communist Party maintains total control over domestic media, which they have traditionally described as the “eyes, ears, tongue, and throat of the party,” according to Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,Share this article:
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