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DAILY NEXUS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2015 www.dailynexus.com UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA Paris Attacks Affect EAP Students Students Express for anyone who needed a place; there was a [#PorteOuverte] going around which means ‘open door,’ so basically if you needed a place to Solidarity with stay you would tweet or post on social media with that hashtag and anyone who saw it would invite you in,” Miller said. Miller said people in Paris the night of Nov. Mizzou Protests 13 were “there for each other.” “Everyone was scared, no one knew what was happening, but that made us all in it together. French or American — it didn’t matter what your nationality was,” Miller said. Brockert said the gravity of the situation became “real” after she learned there were 100 hostages at the Bataclan theatre. “Me and my roommate stopped in the middle of the metro station and I almost lost it because it felt really real,” Brockert said. “It didn’t just happen, it was happening right now. People are dying right now and we were a mile away and it became very real.” Brockert said she had visited Place de la République, a square near where the shootings took place, which is now filled with flowers “stacked feet high” and “hundreds and hundreds” of candles. Brockert said when she was in the square a man stood blindfolded in the middle of the crowd with a sign in French reading “I’m a ATEKEN ABLA / DAILY NEXUS Muslim, but I’m not a terrorist. We all love.” Zareena Zaidi hostages were killed. On Friday evening, “I watched person after person of every Reporter President Francois Hollande closed France’s background and every age walk up to him and borders and declared a state of emergency. Flights hug him,” Brockert said. “At one point a three- Maddy Brockert was in the Stade de France were cancelled, a curfew mandated and the Eiffel or-four-year old ran up and grabbed his leg … in Paris for the France vs. Germany soccer game Tower closed until Monday, Nov. 16. It was cool seeing someone that young just see on Nov. 13 when a bomber outside the stadium Third-year anthropology and psychology him as another human being — not see him as began the first of several terrorist attacks on the double-major EFFIE SKLAVENITIS / DAILY NEXUS city that evening. and EAP student The meeting was held in light of recent racially Brockert, a third-year sociology major and Danielle Miller Me and my roommate stopped in charged occurrences at the University of Missouri. Education Abroad Program (EAP) student, is one lives in the 12th the middle of the metro station and I of 23 UCSB students currently studying abroad arrondissement “ Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs in Paris. Following the terrorist attack, which left of Paris and was almost lost it because it felt really real. Asst. News Editor approximately 130 dead, UCEAP successfully unable to access confirmed the safety and location of all UCSB her apartment on - Maddy Brockert In a dimly-lit Isla Vista garage, about 45 students, local students in Paris. the night of the residents and UC Santa Barbara staff members convened on The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) attacks due to a claimed responsibility for the mass shootings and police blockade. Miller said she and a group of a Muslim, not see him as a terrorist, not see him Wednesday to support University of Missouri protesters, share suicide bombings at six locations throughout friends were able to spend the night at the house as anything other than a human being and just their difficulties as people of color and discuss the most effec- the city, including the final and deadliest of someone she met that night. showing him love.” tive means of overcoming these trials. attack at the Bataclan concert hall, where 89 “[Parisians] were opening their doors PARIS p.3 MIZZOU p.4 2 Thursday, November 19, 2015 Daily Nexus DAILY NEXUS CALENDAR UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA Magic Lantern Films Mark Moffett Itzhak Perlman, violin presents The High Frontier: Exploring Emanuel Ax, piano AMERICAN ULTRA theForest Canopy Thu, Jan 21 Friday, November 20 at 7 Sun, NOv 22 3:00 PM 7:00 PM & 10pm The Granada Theatre Monday, November 23 at 7 & 10pm IV Theater, Isla Vista $4 Sun, Nov 8 IV LIVE presents 4:00 PM IMPROVABILTY’s CAL Hahn Hall POLY V. 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Community Meeting Continued from p.1 Third-year political science major and EAP student students have the option to return home, they will Discusses Possible New Cameron Sousa said he and his friends were shaken stay in France to immerse themselves in the local when they heard about the attacks.