The UC regents voted Thursday to approve an 8 percent student fee increase by a 15-5 majority. The decision, which came on the final day of the three-day meeting at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus, was made without a large presence of student activists.

Anticipation hung in the air at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay conference center while students and workers demonstrated in opposition to proposed fee hikes and a two-tier pension program.

Tuesday’s rally began with a small number of participants, but the group slowly increased its size as they recruited students going from the Porter Quad to the Quarry Plaza.

Volatile regents meeting ends in arrest and frustration. Student regents try to stay optimistic about the pending vote to increase student fees eight percent Nov. 18, anticipating a “lively debate.”