Good morning. It’s Friday, and I’m reading about this weekend’s downtown oyster festival. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles, and California stories you need to know for today.

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Students are raving about the friendly service at Bruxie, a chicken and waffles chain that opened in the Village Wednesday. Several bemoaned the prices — entrees cost under $14 and shakes go for $6.45 — but seemed to dig the food. “The waffles are fire,” one sophomore said.

Mysha Amir / Annenberg Media

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The University of California system is jacking tuition for out-of-state undergraduates in an effort to cover its massive budget shortfall. Those students will now pay $52,536 — still short of USC’s $69,904. It’s also worth noting that the UC’s unusually high increase of $3,402 is basically what USC does every year.

Michael Burke / EdSource

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USC’s IT department said it shut down campus WiFi networks last night for maintenance, though it’s unclear if the four-hour operation was related to the sporadic network outages this week. Add that to the list of the school’s recent IT-related woes.

Nathan Elias / Daily Trojan

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LA’s new district attorney pledged to prosecute low-level crimes and end what he called a “culture of lawlessness.” Nathan Hochman, a Republican-turned-independent, said he’ll also seek longer sentences for gang members, file juvenile charges more freely, and more aggressively argue against parole.

Jaimie Ding / Associated Press

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A woman was arrested on suspicion of impersonating a registered nurse then somehow overseeing 60 patients at a Burbank hospital. It wasn’t the first time she’s done it: The serial impersonator once pulled off similar schemes in Santa Clarita and her home state of Virginia.

Clara Harter / Los Angeles Times