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Morning, Trojan.

Seven stories for today, Sept 13.

đź“Ť On campus

  1. Here’s a quick breakdown of policy differences between university-affiliated and non-affilated frats. (Natalie Leong / Daily Trojan)

  1. Students celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival in an event put on by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association this past weekend. (Ashly Lam / Daily Trojan)

🌴 In L.A.

  1. L.A. County has agreed to allocate $236 million dollars to programs that will build permanent housing for homeless individuals on Skid Row, and offer mental health programs, substance abuse disorder treatment, job placement counselors and child daycare services to those same residents. (Steve Scauzillo / San Gabriel Valley Tribune)

  1. PnB Rock, a Philadelphia rapper, was fatally shot in a South L.A. robbery at Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles. The shooter remains at large. (Kenan Draughorne, Richard Winton and Gregory Yee / Los Angeles Times)

  1. L.A. county reported the nation’s first confirmed monkeypox death on Monday. The patient was severely immunocompromised, and the death comes as new monkeypox transmission appears to be slowing across the county. (Paige Austin / Patch)

🌅 California

  1. As gasoline prices across the United States fall to normal levels, prices in California are on the rise again — and experts predict that’ll keep happening. Some have pointed to refinery outages as the culprit. (David Lightman / Sacramento Bee)

  1. The legalization of recreational marijuana use in California has led to an increase in illegal farms, violence and environmental damage. In many cases, licensed growers are being pushed out of the business by a proliferation of illegal greenhouses in the far north of the state, and communities there have been subject to violence and the environmental ramifications of the unregulated growth. Law enforcement in those counties is spread far too thin to make any meaningful raids on criminal farms. (Paige St. John / Los Angeles Times)

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