For the 6,791 freshmen and 3,004 transfer students entering UC Berkeley this year, Golden Bear Orientation, or GBO, will serve as an introduction to the institution that is home to more than 40,000 students.
Co-sponsor blames Trump for outbreak of xenophobia
The University of California Berkeley’s student senate recently passed a resolution calling for mandated xenophobia training for all new students through the school’s New Student Services department.
Samuel Peng, a member of the Associated Students of the University of California and the primary sponsor of the resolution, along with six other co-sponsors, led the passage on December 2 of a resolution titled “In Support of the Incorporation of Xenophobia Prevention Trainings in the New Student Services Programs.”
The sponsors cited coronavirus-inspired discrimination as justification for their resolution. The legislation claimed there have been “various xenophobic incidents” that occurred at the public university since January 2020, but only cited to specific examples.