In a day full of angry citizens locking themselves to large buildings, three students were also arrested this morning after chaining themselves to the entrance of the UCSF Mission Bay community center. It seems that they're hot and bothered over the UC Regents for a myriad of reasons, but mainly because of "fee hikes, the use of the SAT exam in student admissions, UC management of nuclear-weapons laboratories, and what they called the university's lack......

It's our turn to read the Weeklies this week, and we start with SFist Sarah L's pick of last week, the newly-re-indied East Bay Express. Congrats! The letters hate on the UC Regents. Something about racial bias in contracting, we didn't really understand it. The story behind those "nappy headed hos" t-shirts at Bear Basics. Cover article: Some well-paid lackey of "Golden Pig" Don Perata. Bless their hearts at the EBX! They've also started summarizing......

--Whoa, Ed Jew! See below. Aaron Peskin told the I-Team that the FBI was searching Jew's City Hall office for "$100 bills with specific serial numbers listed." That does not sound good at all. Jew told the Chron he's being investigated for accepting $40,000 from businessmen needing permit approvals. The businessmen were trying to open Quickly stores. --Also, there's going to be massive layoffs at the Chron. Oh, we hope they're not going to......

Those poor UC Regents. All they wanted to do was knock down a few trees to build a new training facilityand for all this, they've been sued, had a bunch of people live in the trees , and saw Native Americans declare it a sacred site. Now they might be facing their most diabolical protest yet-- a work of community art. Oh, no, not community art. What's next, will the Dance Brigade stage an interpretive dance? ...

Lots of gun-related mayhem in today's stories. One wonders why it is that everyone seems to be in a pissy mood lately. -Here's a really sad story about the aftermath of a shooting last Friday. -There was a road-rage incident in Richmond that left someone in critical condition. -Shots were fired into a Pinole Safeway. -Was that your cell phone that exploded or are you just happy to see me? -Starting fires might be all......

-Shakeup at Yahoo. We wonder if on the pink slips it says "Yahoo" or "Yahoo!" You know, as in "We really valued your employment at Yahoo!" -R.I.P Chocolatelicious buses. -UC Regents approve the building of new athletic training center. Looks like those people in the trees are going to up there for a bit longer. -Raiders and city of Oakland finally make nice, to have makeup sex. -Clint Eastwood to be inducted into the California......

Stadium issues aren't just affecting Bay Area professional teams, but college teams too. There's a fight going on about renovating Cal's Memorial Stadium that's been going on for the past few months. And it's even taken an "Only in Berkeley" angle: to protest the planned cutting down of some Oak trees, activists went all Julia Butterfly Hill and camped out on them before the Big Game. ...

-Students at UC Santa Cruz clash with police during a visit by the UC Regents. At UC Santa Cruz? We thought that the only thing students did there is run around naked in the woods on mushrooms and do drum circles? -Hey, here's good news: the rental market is heating up. It's back to the days of rising rental prices and too many people looking. Yay!...

It's the Big Game this weekend! Guess who's not excited about it? ...