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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...

SYLACAUGA, Alabama – Harold Franklin never set out to attend Auburn University . The school with its agricultural heritage had little appeal for the bookish Franklin. “I used to hate when daddy grew a garden and I had to go out and help with it,” Franklin said. "That was the last place I wanted to go.” He had dreamed of being an attorney, inspired by his childhood idol Thurgood Marshall , the prominent counsel for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and first black Supreme Court justice . “I wanted to be a lawyer,” Franklin said, sitting on the couch in his two-bedroom apartment in Sylacauga below a framed photo of Samford Hall. “That was the most important thing to me.” Franklin graduated from Alabama State University , then named Alabama State College , in 1962 with a degree in government and psychology. Franklin was seeking character references for a law school application when an encounter with civil rights attorney Fred Gray put him on the track to b...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 22-year-old man was arrested Thursday night after shooting a student leaving the Deerwood campus of Florida State College at Jacksonville, police said. Maxwell Martin is charged with two counts of attempted murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle. About 9 p.m., the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office was called to the intersection of Baymeadows Road and Southside Boulevard. Two students were leaving the building and getting into a car when they noticed a man, later identified as Martin, between the railings and bushes walking toward them with a "grimacing look," JSO Lt. Larry Kitchen said. Once in the car, they saw Martin walk around the vehicle with a gun in his hand before he fired a shot toward the back of the vehicle, police said. Mirlene Oliveira, 28, was driving and sped out of the parking lot. Her friend, 18-year-old Jose Yanes, was in the passenger seat and was hit in the left arm by a bullet, police said. The injury was not life-threaten...

Photo taken on July 25, 2017 shows the University of Chicago's campus in Chicago, the United States.(Xinhua/Wang Ping) CHICAGO, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Holding top-10 positions in numerous national and international rankings, University of Chicago (UoC) attracts students in U.S. and all over world, even if the university stands in an unsafe neighborhood at city's southern side. Being called "Murder Capital of America," Chicago saw a surge in gun violence in 2016 with 762 murders, which was more than New York City and Los Angeles combined , according to the Chicago Police Department . Most of the criminal incidents took place in the southern area. However, UoC manages to protect students by setting up a safety network consisting of free bus service , heavy monitoring and expanded policing. Kenneth Rogers, University of Chicago student , speaks during an interview with Xinhua at Chicago, the United States, on July 25, 2017. (Xinhua/Wang Ping) "I think the campus is ve...

Photo by Andrea Yori | CC BY 2.0 In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Washington pursued its elusive enemies across the landscapes of Asia and Africa, thanks in part to a massive expansion of its intelligence infrastructure, particularly of the emerging technologies for digital surveillance , agile drones, and biometric identification. In 2010, almost a decade into this secret war with its voracious appetite for information, the Washington Post reported that the national security state had swelled into a “fourth branch” of the federal government — with 854,000 vetted officials, 263 security organizations , and over 3,000 intelligence units, issuing 50,000 special reports every year. Though stunning, these statistics only skimmed the visible surface of what had become history’s largest and most lethal clandestine apparatus . According to classified documents that Edward Snowden leaked in 2013, the nation’s 16 intelligence agencies alone had 107,035 employees and a combined “b...

Conveniently located in the heart of northern Florida, Gainesville is best known as the capital of "Gator Nation" and the home of the University of Florida. With its bustling, shop- lined downtown streets and a healthy tailgating culture , Gainesville is a popular regional destination that's among the most economically vibrant towns in the state. Once you get a taste of the town's laid-back lifestyle, you won't even want to think about moving on. Gainesville Attractions Gainesville has plenty of attractions for residents, casual visitors and Gators fans alike . Ben Griffin Stadium on UF's campus is a must-see for anyone who's interested in college sports. For folks who prefer to engage in mental exercise, Gainesville also offers a dense cluster of performance spaces and museums. The most popular of these are the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Harn Museum of Art. The latter is a repository of African and Asian artwork. Gainesville Natural...

Betty White, ICM's Toni Howard, '90210' showrunner Chuck Rosin and more remember prom night, partying at Marvin Gaye's house and staging plays with "sets flown in from Broadway" on the iconic campus that turns 90 this year: "There was no one as cute as Jason Priestley." On the very first episode of Beverly Hills, 90210 , which aired Oct. 4, 1990, Shannen Doherty 's Brenda Walsh — uprooted from Minnesota and thrown into a world with valet parking for students' BMWs and Jags — sits with her freshly minted BFF Kelly , played by Jennie Garth . Brenda asks Kelly for guidance navigating the fictional West Beverly High . "Kids here are richer. Some of their parents are celebrities," Kelly answers. "So it's not your normal high school ." Neither was — or is — the high school that inspired it, the real- life Beverly Hills High School , which counts among its alums 90210 's first showrunner, Chuck Rosin . While BHHS, which ...