November 27, 2015
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of SOUTH CAROLINA
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Vol. 34, No. 13
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MUSC’s Angel Tree Program has compiled 1,600 angels to help needy Lowcountry children. But not every angel has been adopted. Organizers ask for everyone’s help to ensure that no child is left out this holiday season. Drop by the hallways around the University hospital cafeteria, the University hospital pharmacy, ART lobby area and pick up an angel tag.
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The Eiffel Tower is visible in the background as Maya Eid’s sister, Randa, and her friends hold up a Lebanese flag in solidarity with victims of terrorist attacks in both countries.
Students reflect on recent attacks in Paris, Beirut By J. Ryne Danielson Public Relations
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rench national Ludivine Renaud is a doctoral student in MUSC’s Molecular, Cell Biology and Pathology program, and she is a new mother. She was out for a stroll around the neighborhood with her 6-monthold daughter, Roxana, when she received a text from a friend asking if she knew what was happening in Paris. She didn’t. She rushed home to turn on the news. “I have two friends in Paris,” she said. “That night it was midnight for them when I realized what was going on. I heard back from Valentine, who told me she was safe, but I didn’t hear back from my friend Clement, who is a professional photographer for the music scene.” When Clement wouldn’t answer, Renaud
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thought that he might have been at the Bataclan concert hall where the American band, Eagles of Death Metal, was playing a show. Earlier in the night, gunmen wearing suicide vests had opened fire on a crowd of Renaud concertgoers there. As police responded, the terrorists began taking hostages, killing them one by one. Elsewhere in Paris, other shootings and bombings were underway. As part of a series of coordinated terrorist attacks, now known to have been planned and carried out by
the Islamic State group, this was the deadliest such event to strike France since World War II. “I was very worried,” Renaud said. It wasn’t until the next day she found out her friend was safe in bed when the attacks took place. “When I started watching the news, there were 18 people dead,” Renaud continued. “By the next morning, it was more than a hundred. I couldn’t believe we were going through this again.” For the second time in less than a year, terrorists had struck in the heart of Paris, the first being the January attack against the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo. “My friends in Paris are paralyzed,” Renaud
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