With tears in her eyes and a warble in her throat, UC Chancellor Linda Katehi apologized to more than 1,000 students and protesters on Monday over the use of pepper spray against peaceful Occupy student protesters. "I really feel horrible for what happened on Friday... I don't want to be the chancellor of the university we had on Friday," an Arianna Huffington-sounding Katehi said amid a chorus of students shouting for her resignation, adding, "I know you may not believe anything i am telling you today. You don't have to. It is my responsibility to earn your trust."

She went on to say that she ordered protesters' tents removed but did not authorize police to use chemical agents against the students.

LA Times reports: "Katehi announced Monday that she had put campus Police Chief Annette Spicuzza on administrative leave, an effort to restore peace to the 32,000-student public university. Two officers involved in the spraying, in which students were hit in the face as they sat quietly with arms linked, were put on paid leave over the weekend."

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Both the Board of the UC Davis Faculty Association and the university's English Department have publicly asked for Katehi to resign.