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Morning, Trojan.

Seven stories for today, Sept 14.

đź“Ť On campus

  1. The Undergraduate Student Government called on the university to more aggressively condemn disaffiliated frats by hosting town hall events and offer more information on those frats to students and parents. (Benjamin Papp / Daily Trojan)

  1. USC has struggled to fill the 77,500-person Coliseum during home football games in recent years, even with the Riley-Williams hype of this season’s home opener. Was that just because of the heat wave, or are there bigger things at play? (Chris Bibona, Sam Bitman and Aaron Goldstein / Annenberg Media)

🌴 In L.A.

  1. Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock’s slaying in South L.A. has raised concerns about celebrities posting geo-tagged social media posts before they’ve left that location. The rapper’s girlfriend had posted to Instagram with the couple’s location just minutes before the botched robbery that led to his murder, and police are investigating whether that played a role in the rapper’s death. (Noah Goldberg, Richard Winton and Libor Jany / Los Angeles Times)

  1. The Los Angeles Unified School District granted Superintendent Alberto Carvalho emergency powers to respond to the Labor Day cyberattack on the district’s computer systems, which continues to be a “pain.” The move grants Carvalho the ability to bypass the traditional public bidding process required when searching for contractors to address the cyberattack, a process which moves slowly and could potentially telegraph the district’s moves to the attacker. (Linh Tat / Los Angeles Daily News)

  1. L.A. developers are increasingly converting aging office buildings into apartment complexes, partially spurred by expected cutbacks in office rentals as companies adapt a pandemic-prompted remote work structure. (Roger Vincent / Los Angeles Times)

🌅 California

  1. A California bill could mandate that prosecutors looking to use song lyrics in charging rappers with a crime hold a pretrial hearing away from the jury to prove that the lyrics are relevant to the case. Gov. Gavin Newsom has just over two weeks to sign the bill into law. (Nigel Duara / Los Angeles Times)

  1. A woman sued the city of San Francisco on Monday, alleging that the police department used her DNA from a rape kit to years later arrest her in connection with an unrelated property crime. (Eduardo Medina / New York Times)

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