Good morning. It’s Monday, and the sperm guys are on campus. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles, and California stories you need to know for today.

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USC’s cutback on Ph.D. admissions won’t just hurt affected doctoral programs. Undergraduates may get less personalized attention from TAs. Professors may have to shoulder heavier workloads in the classroom and lab. “A lot of that labor is happening through graduate students,” said Rossier professor Julie Posselt.

Kathryn Palmer / Inside Higher Ed

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An unidentified person shoved multiple rows of books off their shelves at Doheny Library last week, damaging several and prompting the school to temporarily close the building’s first-level bookstacks. The LA Police Department detained a person of interest who is unaffiliated with USC.

Nathan Elias / Daily Trojan

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Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a massive crowd of 36,000 people to downtown this weekend as part of Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” tour. The two skewered Donald Trump’s “authoritarian” policies. “Despair is not an option,” Sanders said. “Giving up and hiding under the covers is not acceptable. The stakes are just too high.”

Laura J. Nelson / Los Angeles Times

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California’s housing crisis in a nutshell: A state lawmaker proposed a bill that would force all California State University and community college campuses to let students sleep overnight in parking lots. It’s intended as a stopgap measure to offer some reprieve for students who can’t find housing until long-term policy can catch up.

Eric He / Politico

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Three in 5 people attending Coachella this year are doing so on a payment plan. It’s not as bad as it sounds: Defaulting on a loan will get your ticket revoked with a voucher for next year’s festival, with no ding to your credit score. Still, one official said it’s not uncommon for fans to have five payment plans hitting their accounts at the same time.

Dave Brooks / Billboard