Good morning. It’s Tuesday, and I’m reading about the best new restaurants in Los Angeles. Also: Voting is still open for the inaugural “USC Moron of the Year.” Onto the five USC, LA and California stories you need to know for today.

1.

USC President Carol Folt said last night that she wouldn’t mobilize the LA Police Department to clear USC’s pro-Palestinian encampment — for now — after meeting in-person with the protest’s organizers. Everybody’s still pissed, though. Folt remained mum when asked why legions of LAPD officers mobilized then inexplicably vanished over the weekend, but indicated that she might be willing to talk to journalists in the future. “I appreciate you asking, and I actually feel that it’s really important that I’m able to talk to you,” Folt told a student journalist. Aw. I’m feeling all fuzzy inside. 

Mohammed Zain Shafi Khan and Tamara Almoayed / Annenberg Media

2.

Encampments continue to spread across California college campuses. San Francisco State, Sonoma State, Sacramento State, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, Occidental and the Claremont Colleges are among the latest to join a growing movement that’s led to hundreds of arrests nationwide. None have been nearly as testy as demonstrations at Cal Poly Humboldt and UCLA, though, and no university administrators are yet to garner as much universal hatred as USC’s. A growing chorus of Jewish students say they find the protests “terrifying.”

Jessica Flores / San Francisco Chronicle

3.

California will supply universities and first responders with free Narcan, an opioid overdose reversal drug. The effort is part of CalRx, a state initiative that partners with generic drugmakers to buy low-cost versions of medications like insulin in an attempt to reduce shortages and prod name-brand drug makers to lower their prices. The announcement comes on the heels of a recent high-profile fentanyl overdose of a UC Berkeley freshman.

Summer Lin / Los Angeles Times

4.

It just got easier to own an electric vehicle in California. That’s thanks to the fact that Tesla, which operates a behemoth network of EV chargers, said it’ll open its stations to non-Tesla vehicles across the state. The move could make road trips and daily commutes more feasible for everyday drivers, and comes as California officials scramble to build out EV charging infrastructure ahead of the state’s 2035 phase-out of new gas car sales. 

Aidin Vaziri / San Francisco Chronicle

5.

The next time you go to the beach, watch out for bizarre, blob-like creatures that might wash ashore. They’re called Velella velella — or, more commonly, by-the-wind sailors — and are washing up by the thousands on Southern California shores. Velella velella vaguely resemble jellyfish and the Portuguese man o’ war, though their stings are considered mild to humans. Still, officials warned that it probably isn’t advisable for swimmers and surfers to wade into a crowd of creatures.

Travis Schlepp / KTLA