Dave, they are oak trees
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10395750
Chief of UCB Police sent a letter to the students saying they wanted to deal with the tree-sitters peacefully. 400 students wrote back in favor of removing the tree-sitters more forcefully than they had been doing. [courtesy
The Economist a few months ago]
widgeon13- One of these tree-sitters did this in a random tree on campus, out in the central plaza, last semester. He had buckets hanging for his excrement. Like the guys in oak grove, he flung his s*** at police officers before and while being arrested...as a number of students watched
It's a bunch of nonsense, really