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Morning, Trojan |
Seven stories with Tomoki Chien. |
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📍 On campus |
On a cloudy day in March 2011, commuting students stopped and stared slack-jawed at the roof of Waite Phillips Hall. The source of the disruption? Two USC students thought it was a good idea to cross “rooftop sex” off their bucket lists. The event left the campus abuzz with discussions about the repercussions of hookup culture, both public and private. A decade later, the Daily Trojan spoke with students to explore today’s hookup culture at USC. (Marcel Lacy / Daily Trojan)
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🌴 In L.A. |
The L.A. City Council could expand under a new motion that would place a ballot measure before voters in 2024 to expand the council based on population growth. Many consider L.A. councilmembers some of the most powerful city leaders in the nation because each member represents relatively large swaths of the population. For context, New York City, which has eight million residents, has 51 council members — each representing about 167,000 residents. L.A. is a city of four million, with 15 members each representing about 260,000 residents. (Caitlin Hernández / LAist)
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Harmful emissions at the Port of L.A. soared during the pandemic. Cancer-causing diesel particulate matter rose 56% compared with 2020, and emissions of nitrogen oxides, the precursor to smog, increased 54% while lung-irritating sulfur oxides rose 145%. (Tony Briscoe / Los Angeles Times)
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Acting L.A. City Council President Mitch O'Farrell stripped councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Leon from committee chairmanships and assignments. Both Cedillo and de Leon were heard in the tape that caught former Councilmember Nury Martinez making racist and disparaging comments; neither objected to her remarks in the recording. Both councilmembers have resisted calls from council colleagues and prominent politicians to resign from their posts. (Brian Melley and Stefanie Dazio / Associated Press)
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🌅 California |
Two California politicians solicited bribes from cannabis business in exchange for licenses. Federal prosecutors unveiled two plea agreements that detail pay-to-play schemes involving cannabis business licensing to corroborate an L.A. Times report last month that examined how legalization of weed unleashed a wave of corruption across California. (Adam Elmahrek, Ruben Vives, Robert J. Lopez and Paige St. John / Los Angeles Times)
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Police believe there may be more shootings linked to 43-year-old Wesley Brownlee, the man accused of carrying out a series of nighttime serial killings in Stockton. (Nora Mishanec / San Francisco Chronicle)
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California’s three-year-old COVID-19 state of emergency will end Feb. 28, 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced Monday. (Kristen Hwang and Ana B. Ibarra / CalMatters)
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📰 Editor’s note |
What a great story from the Daily Trojan today. Hats off to Marcel Lacey, the writer on that byline. Also, just a heads up: Annenberg Media’s production is on pause, so most of the rest of the week’s campus stories will be from the Daily Trojan.
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⭐️ A bonus |
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🚨 In case you missed it |
A report found that low-income residents in L.A. County often pay more for the same or worse internet service than their neighbors in higher-income areas. Spectrum, specifically called out in the report, disputed the findings as “intentionally misleading,” and said the report focused on short-term promotional discounts that change regularly. (Samantha Masunaga / Los Angeles Times)
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