Two more fraternities joined the University Park Interfraternity Council — the coalition of fraternities that disaffiliated from the school last month — but confusingly also still remain in the USC Interfraternity Council, which is the official USC-affiliated organization. (Natalie Leong / Daily Trojan)
USC’s first all-Black majorette team made its debut at the home football game versus Fresno State this weekend. Princess Lang, a sophomore studying musical theater, founded the group called the Cardinal Divas of SC. (Nia Harris / Annenberg Media)
🌴 In L.A.
Face coverings will no longer be required on L.A. County public transit as well as in train stations, airports, cooling centers, homeless shelters and correctional facilities. The changes are effective Friday. (Christina Merino / Daily News)
Friends, brace yourselves for another heat wave starting this weekend. Luckily, though, the temperatures aren’t projected to be quite as searing as the wave earlier this month. (Hayley Smith / Los Angeles Times)
L.A. Unified will start issuing free Narcan, an anti-overdose medication, on all of its campuses by mid-October. Narcan is designed to temporarily restore breathing in patients and allow first-responders time to arrive and begin more permanent treatment. The district’s announcement comes after a string of recent fentanyl overdoses in the school district, one of which was a 15-year-old girl who died in a Bernstein High School bathroom. (Rob Hayes / ABC 7)
A judge found that the sheriff’s office didn’t violate protocol in obtaining a warrant to search the home of county Supervisor Sheila Kuehl — though the judge hasn’t yet ruled on the validity of the warrant itself. Previously, critics accused Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s investigators of requesting the warrant from a judge they knew would be friendly to their cause; the judge on Thursday reported that it was a mere coincidence that the request landed on Judge Craig Richman’s desk. Richman has a decades-long relationship with one of the sheriff’s department’s lead investigators. (Alene Tchekmedyian / Los Angeles Times)
🌅 California
A lawsuit filed by a data privacy watchdog alleges that a Northern California utility company racially profiled Asian communities when feeding power use information to authorities in an effort to root out illegal marijuana grows. Abnormally high electricity use can often be a telltale sign of illegal grow houses, though the suit asserts that the Sacramento Municipal Utility District didn’t look for high electricity use in predominately white neighborhoods, and that a police analyst removed non-Asian-sounding names from the list provided by the utility. (Don Thompson / Associated Press)
🚨 In case you missed it
A team of undergrads launched an app called “Mist” on Monday, where users anonymously compliment others on campus and then have the option of connecting via direct message. Personally, my question is whether this will turn out to be a compliment-disguised-as-booty-call app, or a genuine form of social media. (Staff report / Annenberg Media)
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