Good morning. It’s Monday, and I’m reading about the best places to see fall foliage in Los Angeles. Onto the five USC, LA, and California stories you need to know for today.

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One person died after a car and motorcycle collided at the McClintock Avenue entrance to campus, police said. The Friday morning crash shut down the intersection for over two hours while the unknown victim was rushed to the hospital, where they later died.

Sean Campbell / Daily Trojan

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A team of USC undergrads launched a rocket 470,400 feet above the Earth — shattering the previous amateur altitude record. Epic footage from a rocket-mounted camera shows Aftershock II launching from the Nevada desert, shooting through the atmosphere, then drifting in space.

Mike Wall / Space.com

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USC was the top destination for international colleges students studying in California last year as their numbers reached an all-time high, a new report found. Still, higher education experts say Donald Trump’s immigration policies could stymie enrollment come Inauguration Day.

Jaweed Kaleem / Los Angeles Times

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The Coast Guard detained 21 migrants on a fishing boat outside Newport Beach last week. The firebrand mayor of the famously Trumpy town is not pleased. "Every city in California now is essentially a border city thanks to SB 54,” he said, implausibly skewering a law that didn’t have any bearing on the incident.

Matthew Seedorff / Fox 11

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Senior Au Chung won the Carol Folt lookalike competition, which managed to draw seven contestants and a sizable crowd outside the Trousdale entrance Friday. “I just had Carol Folt lying within me, and it needed to come out,” one contestant said. The real Folt did not show up.

Hannah Contreras / Daily Trojan