Good morning. It’s Friday, and I’m reading about how to watch the solar eclipse on Monday. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know for today.

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USC officials shut down one of the school’s main walkways to make room for rapper Travis Scott as he visited campus to promote his line of collegiate-branded apparel. The merch drop — which garnered a comically massive line of students, some whom even camped overnight — caused pedestrian traffic jams around campus and a general headache for anybody not interested in a pair of $140 sweatpants. Thankfully, though, Scott prepared some astute words to share at our prestigious educational institution: “Study don’t jack off,” he wrote in one autograph.

Henry Kofman / Daily Trojan

2.

A driver crashed through a wall on the third floor of the McCarthy Way Parking Structure, prompting officials to temporarily shut down the garage and direct pedestrians to avoid the sidewalk directly under the crash. Photos showed the wall split in two, hanging over the edge of the structure. No injuries were reported, and officials reopened the garage just a few hours after the incident. 

Talia Wexler / Daily Trojan

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Police spent five hours in a standoff with a suspect who allegedly burglarized a USC student’s apartment then barricaded himself in a nearby home. The man broke several windows and may have started a small fire, prompting firefighters to visit the scene on West 30th Street between Shrine Place and Royal Street to extinguish the blaze. The suspect surrendered around 11 p.m., and no injuries were reported. 

Danielle Radin / KCAL News

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If you think your vote doesn’t count, a House race in Silicon Valley might make you reconsider. In California, only the top two candidates in the primary election move onto the general contest. But this is no ordinary case: Two candidates are locked at exactly 30,249 votes each for second place, and both will advance to a three-way election in November. While rare, the result isn’t entirely unprecedented. The race for a state Assembly seat in 2016 had three candidates on the general ballot due to a similar tie vote.

Guy Marzorati / KQED

5.

For years, a familiar story has floated about Gov. Gavin Newsom: He grew up with dyslexia, making him a poor student who struggled in school. But his saving grace was that he was good at baseball, which helped secure him a spot at Santa Clara University, giving him a chance to make something of himself. And he was so good that he even got drafted by the Texas Rangers. Turns out that’s a bit of a stretch. The governor never appeared on Santa Clara’s roster, and his powerful father’s connections are actually what got him into the school. And he might’ve been scouted by the Rangers, but he certainly wasn’t drafted.

Alexei Koseff / CalMatters