Student Protesters at San Francisco State U. Get an Apology, but Still Owe Fines

It appears that some student protesters at San Francisco State University did have an agreement to pay fines of no more than $50 apiece in exchange for ending their occupation of the university’s business school in December, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. After the university told the students they would have to pay $744 each, an assistant dean, Will Flowers, denied having made such a deal. On Friday, the university issued a “clarification,” saying Mr. Flowers “now recalls discussing a minimal damage sanction— ‘something like $50′ —with two students.” The university reopened the disciplinary appeals process for the students, the newspaper said, but did not reduce their fines.