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The University of Cincinnati put the top two Bearcats band employees on leave two weeks before Cotton Bowl, according to a message UC Dean Juan Guardia sent to band members on Dec. 21. Guardia didn't explain why Director Christopher Nichter and Associate Director Nicholas Angelis are on leave.

Cited for not accommodating a medical condition The University of Cincinnati refuses to say if John Ucker, an engineering professor, will return to the classroom this upcoming semester. The public university placed Ucker on leave in September after he referred to COVID-19 as the Chinese virus in an email to a student. The engineering professor “will remain on leave for the rest of the semester at least,” The Enquirer, a Cincinnati paper in the Ucker does not show up in the public universi...