BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Secret Service agents searched the apartment of a University of California student newspaper columnist who wrote a satirical attack on Chelsea Clinton, the writer says. Guy Branum, a columnist for the Daily Californian, said agents searched his off-campus apartment Monday, the same day Chelsea Clinton's mother, Hillary Rodham Clinton, visited the university for a meeting on foster care. Chelsea Clinton is a freshman at rival Stanford University. The Secret Service office in San Jose refused to comment or confirm Branum's account. A White House spokeswoman also would not comment. The agents checked for weapons, Branum said Tuesday. They also had him sign a release giving them access to his medical records, he said. ``They wanted to make sure there wasn't anything that would demonstrate mental instability on my part,'' he said. ``No pictures of Chelsea with X's through them or something like that.'' He said he gave two agents permission for the search after they threatened to detain him while getting a search warrant if he didn't. Branum said his column, which appeared Thursday, was meant to be satirical. It was intended to rally spirit before the UC-Stanford football game. In the column, Branum revealed which dormitory Chelsea lives in and wrote: ``Show your spirit on Chelsea's bloodied carcass, because as the Stanford Daily (newspaper) lets us know, she is JUST ANOTHER STUDENT.'' ``She embodies the Stanford ethos of establishment worship that must be subverted and destroyed,'' the column continued. ``Is hate a strong word? Yes. Is it applicable? Certainly.'' The newspaper apologized Friday for undermining a ``student's physical safety'' and its own reputation. Stanford went on to beat UC, 21-20, in Saturday's game. Branum said the agents who searched his apartment lectured him about the column and about a previous column in which he referred to the president as ``Sexual Predator in Chief.'' -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"