Tensions flare outside UC regents' meeting

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

One University of California police officer drew his gun, others used pepper spray, and some tumbled down stairs in a raucous confrontation Wednesday with hundreds of protesters that ended in 13 arrests outside the UC regents' meeting in San Francisco.

About 300 students and UC employees from up and down the state - furious that the regents are likely to raise tuition for the sixth time in four years - showed up at UCSF's Mission Bay campus to protest the latest increase. Nearly 100 police in riot gear stood by as the regents met on the second day of their three-day meeting.

The bubble faces demonstrations.