title: COLLEGE HOLDS EARLY SEGREGATED ORIENTATION To Help ONLY Minority Students With Financial Aid and Schedules
text: THIS IS EXPECTED FROM THIS LEFTY COLLEGE Will it trickle out to other colleges? Participants were able to move in before most other students.  Privilege much? Victimhood translates to doing exactly what the  so called  victims fought against .Go figureThe University of California, Berkeley invited certain  special populations  of new students to move in a day early to attend racially-exclusive orientation sessions.According to a guide to the new  Golden Bear Orientation  program, the school offered a special programming on Monday for a variety of populations, including Hispanic students, black students, Native American students, and Asian American/Pacific Islander students. We want all our students to make it to orientation and to have an accessible and equitable experience.  Tweet This Most other students,  meanwhile, spent the day moving into their residence halls and preparing for the main freshman orientation program, which runs from August 15-22.The  Black Student Orientation  aimed to address  the specific transitional and community needs of African American/Black students  at the university with  community building activities, academic and campus life workshops, and a resource fair. As part of the  Black Student Orientation,  students participated in a  Black World Tour  in which they were taken around the surrounding area for a showcase of  black owned businesses. [RELATED: Black Harvard grads to hold separate commencement ceremony]Similarly, a  Familia Orientation  was offered for  Chicanx and Latinx  students on August 13, while an  Asian American Pacific Islander Student Orientation  was reserved for responding to the  specific transitional and community needs of Asian American, Pilipinx , and Pacific Islander students. A final  special population  orientation was provided for  native students  enrolled at the elite institution, who were encouraged to show up early to  map locations of your classes, get to know campus, meet continuing Cal Native students and other new Native students, and have a little fun before classes start. In fact, the Native American Student Development Office touts on its website that  another bonus  of attending the exclusive orientation was being  eligible for early move-in,  a benefit that the African American Student Development Center similarly advertises on its website, noting that participants were able to move in before  most other students. Read more: Campus Reform