SFist Blotter

Students at Cal protest the store Bear Basics for selling shirts they found offensive. The shirts in question said "Rutgers Nappy-Headed Ho Basketball Team." A manager was asked to stop selling the shirt and refused, so the students organized a protest for the next day. The manager's boss intervened and pulled the shirt before the store opened the next day, but when the students came by a few days later, they found two other shirts offensive so they planned a protest this Wednesday. Eight shirts were ultimately taken off the shelves.

Community college Diablo Valley College has referred 74 students to the Contra Costa DA's office for investigation in a money-for-grades scandal. It turns out people in the DVC records office would change your grades in the computer system for $600 a class, with some Fs getting changed into As. (You think they charged less to move something up to a C?) About 400 grades were changed, and of the students involved, a significant number took those doctored grades and transferred to four-year programs. DVC doesn't look so good in all of this either -- it turns out they let about 100 people have access to the grades database (including students) when most schools only allow around 5-10 people access on a very strict security system, and they've known about the problem for over a year before it became public.

And here's the grim: Oakland City Council President Ignacio de la Fuente's son, Ignacio de la Fuente Jr. pled guilty to raping four women and a man was shot on 26th and Harrison Wed. night.