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Photo taken on July 25, 2017, shows a blue light emergency phone column installed outside the south entrance of UC Berkeley in Berkeley, California, the United States.(Xinhua/Ma Dan) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- As American universities will start the new school year in weeks, concerns are raising over safety of international students who will face a new American setting filled with unfamiliar risks and even threats. From his understanding, officer Wade MacAdam , who works with UC Berkeley Police Department 's Safety Programs, expected international students to be more alert, not only on surroundings but on personal property as well, as they are more likely to be "easy target." He said in a recent interview with Xinhua that safety has always been a real issue for international students to take into consideration seriously, especially for those from China, following the kidnapping of Zhang Yingying, a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champa...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - UC San Diego was named the 15th best university in the world Tuesday in the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities. UCSD has been ranked in the No. 13-15 range since the list, now put out by the China- based ShanghaiRanking Consultancy , began in 2003. "UC San Diego is honored to be recognized by the Academic Ranking of World Universities for our commitment to academic excellence," said Chancellor Pradeep Khosla . "With a campus culture that embraces risk-taking and collaboration, UC San Diego leverages boundary -breaking research and world- class education to benefit humankind and our planet." The rankings are based on the numbers of alumni and faculty winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers , articles published in journals Nature and Science, articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index , and per capita performance. The top five schools were Harvard, Stanford, Camb...

"You walk without a sense of purpose," a Berkeley bar manager once told James "Peaches" Lucas before firing him. A dedicated climber who spent 15 years living out of caves, tents, and then a Saturn station wagon to pursue the sport, Lucas stumbles through life but marches to the boulders, crags, and walls. Peaches Preaches is his monthly column. Photos from the author's dirtbag days, circa 2004.  "You ain't no dirtbag, home boi," a Seattle climber wrote me in a direct message on Instagram. "You talk as though you are because you have been doing it since 2001. You are not a dirtbag; you have Instagram, for crying out loud!" The unsolicited slander caused me to reflect on the dirtbag experience and my role in promoting it. In the past decade, the climbing community has grasped onto the idea that being a dirtbag—that being deliberately impoverished in order to scrap and save every last penny to go climbing—is “cool.” The Seattle climbe...