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The exact venue for this fall’s concert hasn’t been announced.

Organizers are hoping headliner A$AP Rocky, a Grammy-nominated rapper, will entice more students to keep their homecoming celebrations safely on campus.

“The event is going to start earlier this year in the morning,” said Waltenbury. “We are hoping to introduce a morning headliner to draw students for the full day.”

As ticket holders won’t have venue in-and-out privileges, bookending headliners might entice students to stay at the event and away from the rowdy street party.

Coun. Phil Squire, whose Ward 6 includes both Western and Broughdale Avenue, said the changes are a step in the right direction.

“It’s a good choice. It obviously creates some distance between where (Purple Fest) is taking place and where the street party is,” said Squire. “The problem last year was that the event was so close to where the street party was that they were almost complementary to each other.”

Still, Squire said it is difficult to find a perfect solution when the entire campus is close to Broughdale.

“Do I think it’s going to solve the problem? No. It’s one more piece in the puzzle to making it less of a problem, and that really is what we can do. We can’t magically make it go away.”

Waltenbury said the USC is taking a collaborative approach and working with Western administration, city officials and emergency services to combat the Broughdale party.

The changes to the USC event are the latest moves to come from campus to curb the unsanctioned fall parties that have brought criticism to the university from city officials and local residents.