"A community college professor in Oakland, Calif., is on administrative leave after asking a Vietnamese-American student to 'Anglicize' her name because he felt it sounded 'offensive' in English."

You may wonder, what was the student's name? It was Phuc. With experience, the professor now knows that he should have simply risen above any childish distraction and said the name forthrightly.

The article is "Professor Who Asked Student to ‘Anglicize’ Her Name Is Put on Leave/Matthew Hubbard, a mathematics professor in Oakland, Calif., said his emails to Phuc Bui Diem Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American college freshman, were both a 'mistake' and 'offensive.'"

Notice that he went beyond saying tell me how to say your name correctly. He used the word "Anglicize":

“I never heard that before,” she said. “At that moment I was surprised, so I Googled the meaning — I didn’t know what it meant, so I called my best friend to ask him, ‘What does that mean?’”...

“The first email was a mistake, and I made it thinking about another student willing to Anglicize,” Professor Hubbard said. “But it’s a big difference with someone doing it voluntarily and asking someone to do it. The second email is very offensive, and if I had waited eight hours, I would’ve written something very different.”

The second email — after she'd told him that it "feels discriminatory" and she was going to file a complaint — said "I understand you are offended, but you need to understand your name is an offensive sound in my language."

Nguyen had previously, for years, used the nickname May. But then she decided she wanted to use her real name — which means “happiness blessing.”