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By Tomoki Chien & Claire Qiu

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, and we’re pleased that California residents have until Oct. 16 to file their taxes. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know for today.

1.

COVID’s footprint has all but faded from USC. Come May 19, the university will no longer require the primary vaccination series and boosters for students in non-health degree programs. It’ll also permanently shut down testing tents and stop requiring a negative antigen test after five days to leave isolation.

Claire Qiu / Daily Trojan

2.

New forecasts show that California flood risks will linger through much of the year as warm weather melts the record Sierra Nevada snowpack. The Tulare Lake and San Joaquin River basins remain at the highest risk, sitting directly in the pack of the mammoth snowpack that’s 249% its normal size for the date.

Hayley Smith / Los Angeles Times

3.

The Biden administration preliminarily suggested evenly splitting Colorado River allotments between California, Nevada and Arizona. Such an allotment could drastically reduce the amount of water delivered to California, which currently has the most senior rights to the river; it would also put an end to the ceaseless interstate bickering over the matter.

Christopher Flavelle / The New York Times

4.

Graduate students in USC’s school of social work are petitioning the university to compensate them for unpaid internships required by the master’s in social work program, staging a 100-person walkout Tuesday in support of the cause. Internships, typically unpaid and intended to arm students with real-world experience, are required by all accredited schools of social work.

Tomoki Chien / Daily Trojan

5.

A growing chorus of Democratic activists and journalists is calling for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to resign after reports that her absence from Congress as she recovers from shingles has made it harder for the Senate to confirm President Biden’s judicial nominees. Feinstein holds a key seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and her absence paired with Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-Pa) has whittled the chamber’s Democratic majority to nothing.

Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle

You’re all caught up. Thanks for reading Morning, Trojan, and have a good day. Anna Hsu copy edited this newsletter.

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