Two taken into custody at SF State protest CORPORATE REPOST

(04-14) 06:37 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Two people were taken into custody at San Francisco State University early today after a group of protesters broke into a campus building, angered by sanctions handed down to demonstrators at a December building takeover, authorities said.

The arrestees were among 20 people who broke into the Cesar Chavez Student Center at about 4 a.m., said university spokeswoman Ellen Griffin.

University police responded and took two of the protesters into custody after pepper-spraying them, Griffin said. Their names were not immediately released. The other protesters "dispersed" but remained on campus, Griffin said.

The protest was in response to student-conduct charges that had been leveled against a number of students who had been involved in a December 10 protest in which protesters had barricaded themselves inside the business school to protest fee hikes.

In that demonstration, 25 protesters were arrested after officers broke windows to get inside the business school building.

After the protest early today, university and San Francisco police remained on campus.

"Right now, everything is calm and orderly," Griffin said.