Stories you shouldn’t miss:

1. Student activists in the Occupy movement are planning protests today in San Francisco and Davis as UC regents meet via video-conference in those cities and two others, the Mercury News reports. The regents recently canceled a meeting in San Francisco because they said they feared violence, and so are now conducting their meeting through video-conferencing to lessen the possibility of a major protest. The Occupy demonstrators, nonetheless, are going ahead with plans for several demonstrations, protesting repeated tuition hikes and what they say is mismanagement of UC by the regents.