Good morning. It’s Friday, and these are the five USC, Los Angeles, and California stories you need to know for today.

I’m sorry for missing yesterday’s newsletter. Today’s subject line may help explain the lack of early morning production.

1.

So you’ve been to Rock’s and the Nine O. Maybe La Barca and Bacari, too. Probably, though, you’re tired of the few going-out options near USC. Consider a trip to the University Club, a campus bar-restaurant many students don’t know about. I recruited two enablers friends and ordered every drink on the happy hour menu to write a guide to the under-appreciated bar.

2.

USC touted the opening of its first infant childcare center in South LA this week, City News Service reported. The center, funded by a federal grant, opens in May and will provide free childcare for local families. It’s the latest highly publicized do-good effort on the part of USC, which similarly celebrated the opening of a community pharmacy last month.

3.

The California Post sent the online masses into a frenzy when it claimed that USC banned men from parts of the Lyon Center under a new gender inclusion initiative. The story — which is inaccurate; men aren’t “banned” — mostly ripped earlier reporting from the Daily Trojan, and was written by a former editor of Annenberg Media.

4.

At a time when fast food chains are struggling to stay open in LA, one has bucked the trend: Raising Cane’s, a favorite among students, which is on an expansion tear across the city. It may be a partially personal effort for the chain’s Louisiana-born CEO, who just bought a mansion in Hollywood Hills and befriended Leo DiCaprio, L.A. Material reported.

5.

An 81-year-old Dodgers fan is irate that the team is no longer printing season tickets, he told NBCLA. “Fifty years — five generations — I’ve had these tickets,” said Errol Segal, who has a flip phone and said he doesn’t know how to use a computer. “They threw me under the bus.”