Berkeley to Block Course Registration of Students Who Skip Sex-Assault Training

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'Students at the University of California at Berkeley who skipped a mandatory training session on sexual-violence prevention will be blocked from registering for spring classes until they make up the session, the campus’s chancellor told the university system’s Board of Regents this week.

The chancellor, Nicholas B. Dirks, spoke at a meeting of the regents on Wednesday at which a task force presented a report with recommendations aimed at standardizing policies governing sexual assault across the 10-campus system.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Mr. Dirks told the regents that the training session was required as part of freshman orientation at Berkeley, but that he learned on Tuesday that 500 students had skipped it. “So this morning, I instructed my team that there will be registration blocks” for those students until they complete the training, he said. “If we can make a block for a library book that hasn’t been returned, we can make a block for this.”'