{"id":19757,"date":"2016-11-13T16:57:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T16:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francaisdeletranger.org\/en\/?p=19757"},"modified":"2016-11-14T20:54:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T20:54:32","slug":"mdfdeusa-hola-california-in-memory-of-our-fellow-american-nohemi-gonzalez-23-long-live-liberty-la-belle-equipe-mdfdejesuisladyliberty130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francaisdeletranger.org\/en\/2016\/11\/13\/mdfdeusa-hola-california-in-memory-of-our-fellow-american-nohemi-gonzalez-23-long-live-liberty-la-belle-equipe-mdfdejesuisladyliberty130\/","title":{"rendered":"MDFDE\/USA: Hola California! In Memory of Our Fellow American Nohemi Gonzalez, 23: Long Live Liberty &#038; La Belle Equipe! #MDFDEJeSuisLadyLiberty130"},"content":{"rendered":"<address itemprop=\"headline\">\n<div id=\"LPDescription_14789896959760.44746784201106093\">lbpost.com A remembrance event will be held Sunday at Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) for senior design student Nohemi Gonzalez\u2014the only American killed in last November\u2019s Paris attacks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a id=\"LPlnk329092\" href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/2000009932-gathering-slated-sunday-for-csulb-student-killed-in-paris-attacks-one-year-ago\">https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/2000009932-gathering-slated-sunday-for-csulb-student-killed-in-paris-attacks-one-year-ago<\/a><\/div>\n<\/address>\n<address itemprop=\"headline\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address itemprop=\"headline\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<p itemprop=\"headline\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Latest<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 itemprop=\"headline\">A tree for Nohemi: Family and friends mark year since Long Beach student&#8217;s death in Paris attack<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<aside data-content-id=\"91894137\" data-content-size=\"leadart\" data-content-type=\"image\" data-content-slug=\"la-jacleonard-1479082868-snap-photo\" data-content-subtype=\"photo\" data-role=\"sc_item imgsize_ratiosizecontainer\" data-state=\"\">\n<div>\n<figure data-role=\"imgsize_item\"><img itemprop=\"image\" title=\"A tree dedicated to slain Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez\" alt=\"A tree dedicated to slain Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez\" data-baseurl=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5829035f\/turbine\/la-jacleonard-1479082868-snap-photo\" data-c-nd=\"2048x1365\" data-role=\"imgsize_srcsetdisplayitem\" \/><\/figure>\n<div data-role=\"lightbox_metadata\">\n<div>Niran Jayasiri helps shovel dirt around a Chinese pistachio tree dedicated at Cal State Long Beach on Sunday in memory of Nohemi Gonzalez, a student who was the only American killed in the Paris terror attack one year ago to the day. (Stuart Palley \/ For The Times)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p itemprop=\"headline\"><a itemprop=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-bio-brittny-mejia-staff.html#nt=byline\">Brittny Mejia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Family and friends who gathered at <a id=\"OREDU0000463\" title=\"California State University, Long Beach\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/education\/colleges-universities\/california-state-university-long-beach-OREDU0000463-topic.html\">Cal State Long Beach<\/a> on Sunday grew emotional as they remembered the life of Nohemi Gonzalez, the only American killed in the Paris terror attacks last November.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/great-reads\/la-me-c1-paris-terror-attacks-20160427-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">A year had passed<\/a> since the 23-year-old\u2019s death while studying abroad at the Strate School of Design in Paris. She was\u00a0one of 130 people killed in the bombing and shooting rampage on Nov. 13, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More:<\/strong> <a id=\"LPlnk798653\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-terror-attack-anniversary-20161113-story.html\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-terror-attack-anniversary-20161113-story.html<\/a><a id=\"LPlnk340118\" title=\"Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-terror-attack-anniversary-20161113-story.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Sting reopens Bataclan after Paris terror attacks<\/h1>\n<div data-bundle=\"byline\">\n<p>By Melissa Bell and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Updated 1056 GMT (1856 HKT) November 13, 2016<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"headline\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amid very tight security and in perfect French, Sting opened a minute&amp;#39;s silence at the Bataclan with the words &amp;quot;we shall not forget them.&amp;quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/161113124257-sting-bataclan-silence-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-mini=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/161113124257-sting-bataclan-silence-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/161113124257-sting-bataclan-silence-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/161113124257-sting-bataclan-silence-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/161113124257-sting-bataclan-silence-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/161113124257-sting-bataclan-silence-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/161113124257-sting-bataclan-silence-full-169.jpg\" data-src-mini1x1=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/161113124257-sting-bataclan-silence-small-11.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781\" data-eq-state=\"mini xsmall small medium\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Amid very tight security and in perfect French, Sting opened a minute\u2019s silence at the Bataclan with the words \u201cwe shall not forget them.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More:<\/strong> <a id=\"LPlnk636061\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/13\/europe\/paris-bataclan-sting\/index.html\">http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/13\/europe\/paris-bataclan-sting\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"LPlnk165790\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/13\/europe\/paris-attacks-one-year-on\/index.html\">http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/13\/europe\/paris-attacks-one-year-on\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"LPlnk329755\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/11\/europe\/paris-attacks-anniversary-bataclan-graphic-novel-comic-book\/index.html\">http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/11\/europe\/paris-attacks-anniversary-bataclan-graphic-novel-comic-book\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 itemprop=\"headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">**************************<\/h2>\n<h1 data-swiftype-index=\"true\">Paris attack, a year later: Daughter\u2019s death still seems surreal to mom<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A couple remembers Southern California student Nohemi Gonzalez, slain by terrorists a year ago in France.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"slideContainerDiv\">\n<div id=\"slideImgDiv\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"fullImage\" title=\"\" alt=\"Beatriz Gonzalez and Jose Hernandez talk about their daughter Nohemi Gonzalez as we approach the one year anniversary of the Paris attack that killed her and 129 others.   \" src=\"http:\/\/images.onset.freedom.com\/pressenterprise\/gallery\/ogii8p-b88838274z.120161111203636000g65k0j30.10.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"835\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Beatriz Gonzalez and Jose Hernandez talk about their daughter Nohemi Gonzalez as we approach the one year anniversary of the Paris attack that killed her and 129 others. BRITTANY MURRAY, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>By JEREMIAH DOBRUCK \/ STAFF WRITER<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>Published: Nov. 11, 2016 Updated: Nov. 12, 2016 9:54 p.m.<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<p>Tucked in the corner of a Norwalk shopping center, there\u2019s a barbershop that\u2019s been touched by terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Inside among the 10 or so hairstyling stations is where Betty Gonzalez learned her daughter had been shot to death by jihadist gunmen.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s where President Barack Obama called to give his condolences while customers still sitting in black-leather barber chairs listened to his voice on speaker phone. And it\u2019s where Gonzalez and her husband of four years, Joe Hernandez, keep alive the memory of Nohemi Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>Tacked above mirrors that line the shop\u2019s gray walls are poster-sized photos of 23-year-old Nohemi. Mixed in are smaller snapshots with friends, formal proclamations of mourning from state officials and a banner packed with handwritten messages from Nohemi\u2019s fellow students at Cal State Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Nohemi\u2019s name became famous last year as the only American killed during the Nov. 13, 2015, terrorist attacks in Paris. She was dining at the cafe La Belle Equipe during a semester of studying abroad when gunmen sprayed the bistro with bullets, killing 19 people. After more coordinated violence, including suicide bombings at the Stade de France stadium where a soccer match was underway and a shooting massacre at the Bataclan concert hall, 130 people were dead.<\/p>\n<p>One year later, France continues to grapple with the aftermath of the attacks carried out by militants from the self-proclaimed Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>After a massive months-long manhunt, the nation is awaiting trial for Salah Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French citizen charged with participating in the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>A state of emergency that gives police expanded powers to search homes and detains suspects remains in place.<\/p>\n<p>And citizens have had to confront questions of security as terror again rocked the nation on July 14 when an assailant drove a truck through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, killing 86.<\/p>\n<p>In Norwalk, the attack\u2019s after-effects don\u2019t have the same scale, but they are pointed and purely personal.<\/p>\n<p>As the anniversary approached this week, hairdressers arrived as normal to set up their stations, and clients wandered in looking for a trim.<\/p>\n<p>But on a couch in the shop\u2019s tiny back room, squeezed in between her husband and the employee fridge, Betty at times seemed distant as she described how her life has changed since her daughter\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day it\u2019s the same,\u201d she said. \u201cI still can\u2019t believe what happened to her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally she wiped away a tear, careful not to muss the makeup she just put on in one of the shop\u2019s mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though it\u2019s going to be a year, I think it\u2019s still fresh,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cWe can still remember like it was yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>The fateful evening <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The evening of Nov. 13, Hernandez \u2013 who is Nohemi\u2019s stepfather \u2013 and Betty were working at their shop when Betty got a call from a friend telling her to turn on the news.<\/p>\n<p>Betty did, but she only watched it fleetingly. She wasn\u2019t worried about her daughter, even though the study abroad trip was her first out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Nohemi was a cautious girl, she thought, never one to put herself in danger and always quick to learn from others\u2019 mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>But later that night, Nohemi\u2019s boyfriend arrived at the shop\u2019s front door and waved for Hernandez to come over.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"headline\"><strong>More:<\/strong> <a id=\"LPlnk801678\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/articles\/nohemi-818345-betty-hernandez.html\">http:\/\/www.pe.com\/articles\/nohemi-818345-betty-hernandez.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">********************<\/h1>\n<h2><strong>In Memoriam<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Djamila Houd, 41 ans<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.20minutes.fr\/2015\/pay-paris-terror-victim-djamila-houd.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9e sur la terrasse de La Belle \u00e9quipe, le restaurant de son mari, Gr\u00e9gory Reibenberg, o\u00f9 elle f\u00eatait un anniversaire avec des amis. Elle est morte dans les bras de son mari. <em>\u00ab\u00a0Je lui tenais la main, on ne pouvait pas la ranimer, on ne pouvait plus rien faire (\u2026). Elle m\u2019a demand\u00e9 de prendre soin de notre fille et je lui ai promis de le faire\u00a0\u00bb,<\/em> a-t-il t\u00e9moign\u00e9 sur France 2 . Le couple a une fille de 8 ans. La victime, originaire de Dreux (Eure-et-Loir), travaillait pour une entreprise de pr\u00eat-\u00e0-porter. <a id=\"LPlnk708567\" href=\"http:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/societe\/1730987-20151127-attentats-paris-victimes-france-ailleurs-12\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/societe\/1730987-20151127-attentats-paris-victimes-france-ailleurs-12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i1469510\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\" title=\"Le Belle Equipe restaurant\" alt=\"Le Belle Equipe restaurant\" src=\"https:\/\/d.ibtimes.co.uk\/en\/full\/1469510\/le-belle-equipe-restaurant.jpg?w=400\" width=\"708\" height=\"854\" \/><\/h2>\n<address>La Belle Equipe restaurant before it was struck in the Paris attacks La Belle Equipe <a id=\"LPlnk702638\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/paris-attacks-scenes-paris-before-after-deadly-violence-1528765\">http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/paris-attacks-scenes-paris-before-after-deadly-violence-1528765<\/a><\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em>\u201cJe rouvrirai La Belle Equipe, et les rires reprendront leur droit. Quoi qu\u2019il arrive, et jusqu\u2019\u00e0 ma mort, ce lieu sera un lieu de vie.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Gr\u00e9gory Reibenberg, husband of Djamila Houd and owner of La Belle Equipe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>La Belle Equipe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caf\u00e9, bar et restaurant au cadre cosy proposant une carte de cocktails et une ardoise bistroti\u00e8re soign\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.fr\/search?newwindow=1&amp;q=la+belle+{4d24daa5a359aa22e51c71c531e935ff229d31c7c5eb0da4885e362fa152ead6}C3{4d24daa5a359aa22e51c71c531e935ff229d31c7c5eb0da4885e362fa152ead6}A9quipe+adresse&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LVT9c3NEwySzcxSzMs15LNTrbSz8lPTizJzM-DM6wSU1KKUouLAaLXarYwAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj4y_nT6qDQAhWFXRQKHQLsCLoQ6BMIhwEwDw\">Adresse<\/a>\u00a0: 92 Rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.fr\/search?newwindow=1&amp;q=la+belle+{4d24daa5a359aa22e51c71c531e935ff229d31c7c5eb0da4885e362fa152ead6}C3{4d24daa5a359aa22e51c71c531e935ff229d31c7c5eb0da4885e362fa152ead6}A9quipe+t{4d24daa5a359aa22e51c71c531e935ff229d31c7c5eb0da4885e362fa152ead6}C3{4d24daa5a359aa22e51c71c531e935ff229d31c7c5eb0da4885e362fa152ead6}A9l{4d24daa5a359aa22e51c71c531e935ff229d31c7c5eb0da4885e362fa152ead6}C3{4d24daa5a359aa22e51c71c531e935ff229d31c7c5eb0da4885e362fa152ead6}A9phone&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LVT9c3NEwySzcxSzMs19LPTrbST87PyUlNLsnMz9PPzssvz0lNSU-NL0jMS80p1s9ILI4vyMjPS7UCkwB3B5moQgAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj4y_nT6qDQAhWFXRQKHQLsCLoQ6BMIigEwEA\">T\u00e9l\u00e9phone<\/a>\u00a0: 01 43 71 89 58<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.fr\/search?newwindow=1&amp;q=la+belle+{4d24daa5a359aa22e51c71c531e935ff229d31c7c5eb0da4885e362fa152ead6}C3{4d24daa5a359aa22e51c71c531e935ff229d31c7c5eb0da4885e362fa152ead6}A9quipe+horaires&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LVT9c3NEwySzcxSzMs15LOTrbSz8lPTizJzM-DM6wy8kuLigH_gfofLgAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj4y_nT6qDQAhWFXRQKHQLsCLoQ6BMIjgEwEQ\">Horaires<\/a>\u00a0: Ouvert aujourd\u2019hui \u00b7 <a tabindex=\"-1\">08:00\u201302:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong> <a id=\"LPlnk694876\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lci.fr\/societe\/attentats-du-13-novembre-le-patron-du-bar-la-belle-equipe-temoigne-de-sa-lente-reconstruction-dans-un-livre-2011964.html\">http:\/\/www.lci.fr\/societe\/attentats-du-13-novembre-le-patron-du-bar-la-belle-equipe-temoigne-de-sa-lente-reconstruction-dans-un-livre-2011964.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"LPlnk328700\" href=\"http:\/\/www.francetvinfo.fr\/faits-divers\/terrorisme\/attaques-du-13-novembre-a-paris\/victimes-des-attentats-a-paris\/le-bar-la-belle-equipe-frappes-lors-des-attentats-rouvre-ses-portes_1369157.html\">http:\/\/www.francetvinfo.fr\/faits-divers\/terrorisme\/attaques-du-13-novembre-a-paris\/victimes-des-attentats-a-paris\/le-bar-la-belle-equipe-frappes-lors-des-attentats-rouvre-ses-portes_1369157.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">**************************<\/h1>\n<h1 id=\"headline\" itemprop=\"headline\">Remembering Nohemi Gonzalez, a Year Later<\/h1>\n<div id=\"story-meta-footer\">\n<p>By BARBARA E. MURPHY<time itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2016-11-04T09:26:13-04:00\">NOV. 4, 2016<\/time><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/11\/06\/education\/06Notebook3\/06Notebook3-master768.jpg\" itemprop=\"url\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/11\/06\/education\/06Notebook3\/06Notebook3-master768.jpg\" data-mediaviewer-src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/11\/06\/education\/06Notebook3\/06Notebook3-superJumbo.jpg\" data-mediaviewer-caption=\"Nohemi Gonzalez was the only American killed in the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris.\" data-mediaviewer-credit=\"Chris Carlson\/Associated Press\" \/><\/p>\n<address>Nohemi Gonzalez was the only American killed in the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. Credit Chris Carlson\/Associated Press<\/address>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p data-para-count=\"138\" data-total-count=\"138\"><strong>Nov. 13 is the one-year anniversary of the death of Nohemi Gonzalez, the only American among 130 killed in the terrorist attacks in Paris.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"372\" data-total-count=\"510\">Nohemi was on a semester abroad, trading in 15 weeks at California State University, Long Beach, for an experience at Strate School of Design in S\u00e8vres, outside of Paris. She was the first in her family to attend college \u2014 a Mexican-American industrial design student on her way to becoming one of just over 15 percent of young Hispanics who hold a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"320\" data-total-count=\"830\">On the night she was killed, she was enjoying the City of Light like a Parisienne, in a lively bistro on Rue de Charonne, perhaps toasting her Cal State design team, which, she had just learned, placed second in a competition for efficient packaging of snack food. The packaging would decompose, leaving no trace behind.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"513\" data-total-count=\"1343\">It is hard to truly know this student from public comments. The language of grief exalts and reduces the dead with larger-than-life words. She is described by friends as \u201calways happy,\u201d \u201cbeautiful\u201d and \u201ca bright spirit.\u201d Her own Facebook posts give a sense of a more particular Nohemi: \u201cLearning a 3D modeling computer program in a language I don\u2019t know is up there in the top three hardest things I\u2019ve ever had to do.\u201d (The reader can\u2019t help but wonder what the other two hard things were.)<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" data-para-count=\"276\" data-total-count=\"1619\">In interviews soon after the attack, Nohemi\u2019s mother sometimes used the present tense to describe her daughter: \u201cShe loves school,\u201d she said, adding that \u201cNohemi wanted a different life from most of our people who just go to work and come home. She wanted a career.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"story-continues-3\" data-para-count=\"467\" data-total-count=\"2086\">Reading about Nohemi\u2019s short life reminded me of many of my students at Johnson State College in Vermont, where I recently retired as president. Vermont is as different from California in its demographic makeup, size and economy as two states can be, and yet her story could have been theirs. Some of my students had never held a passport or even left our state; like Nohemi, they took their first plane rides while in college, exiting wide-eyed onto foreign lands.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"467\" data-total-count=\"2086\"><img decoding=\"async\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/11\/06\/education\/06Notebook2\/06Notebook2-popup.jpg\" itemprop=\"url\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/11\/06\/education\/06Notebook2\/06Notebook2-popup.jpg\" data-mediaviewer-src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/11\/06\/education\/06Notebook2\/06Notebook2-superJumbo.jpg\" data-mediaviewer-caption=\"Ms. Gonzalez in Paris.\" data-mediaviewer-credit=\"Gonzalez family\" \/><\/p>\n<address data-para-count=\"467\" data-total-count=\"2086\">Ms. Gonzalez in Paris. Credit Gonzalez family<\/address>\n<p data-para-count=\"237\" data-total-count=\"2323\">\u201cI can go anywhere now,\u201d one student told me after returning from Greece, as stunned as she was newly confident. Finding your way home on the metro in another country is one thing; doing so on your first metro ride ever is a triumph.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"652\" data-total-count=\"2975\">Like Johnson State, Cal State Long Beach is one of 400 regional colleges and universities educating 40 percent of the nation\u2019s undergraduates. These \u201cmiddle children\u201d of public higher education \u2014 not a community college, not a state flagship \u2014 are oft-forgotten (and seldom celebrated) microcosms of their states. Nohemi might have thrived anywhere, but Cal State Long Beach, whose enrollment is 95 percent Californian and more than one-third Hispanic, seems to have fostered a keen awareness and responsibility of place (her place) and given her not only a context in which to flourish, but also the confidence to venture beyond its borders.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"189\" data-total-count=\"3164\">Nohemi had only begun her journey, but her sense of adventure might serve as a beacon for young people with limited family resources as they set out to discover worlds apart from their own.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"304\" data-total-count=\"3468\">In some ways, she was a typical study-abroad student. According to the Institute for International Education\u2019s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iie.org\/Research-and-Publications\/Open-Doors#.V__HX5MrJds\"> Open Doors report<\/a>, of the 304,500 Americans who studied in another country in 2013-14, 67 percent were women. Approximately 21,000 students, or 7 percent, were focused on fine or applied art.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"310\" data-total-count=\"3778\">In other ways she was atypical: Nearly 75 percent of Americans who study overseas are non-Hispanic white, and disproportionately from private schools. Despite the opening up of federal financial aid to support study abroad, international study is still more available to students with greater family resources.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"358\" data-total-count=\"4136\">Nohemi would have beaten many odds, and we root for people who defy statistics and set new paths. Will Cal State students follow hers? I asked Dean Jeet Joshee, who oversees international study at the university, if he was seeing any drop in interest in study abroad since her death. He said that students tell him they will not be deterred from their plans.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-4\" data-para-count=\"291\" data-total-count=\"4427\">Of course, study abroad is not without its risks. Foreign students in Rome are frequent targets of robberies, including one last summer that ended in the death of an American student in an exchange program at John Cabot University. But such highly publicized deaths may skew our perceptions.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"291\" data-total-count=\"4427\"><img decoding=\"async\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/11\/06\/education\/06Notebook1\/06Notebook1-master675.jpg\" itemprop=\"url\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/11\/06\/education\/06Notebook1\/06Notebook1-master675.jpg\" data-mediaviewer-src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/11\/06\/education\/06Notebook1\/06Notebook1-superJumbo.jpg\" data-mediaviewer-caption=\"A vigil at California State University, Long Beach, where Ms. Gonzalez was a design student.\" data-mediaviewer-credit=\"Monica Almeida\/The New York Times\" \/><\/p>\n<address data-para-count=\"291\" data-total-count=\"4427\">A vigil at California State University, Long Beach, where Ms. Gonzalez was a design student. Credit Monica Almeida\/The New York Times<\/address>\n<p data-para-count=\"380\" data-total-count=\"4807\">The president of the Institute for International Education, Allan E. Goodman, has often said that getting to the airport in the United States may be the most dangerous part of studying abroad. Paradoxically, he says, he is asked by parents from other countries if they should keep their children from coming here to avoid the risks inherent in a country in which guns are rampant.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"510\" data-total-count=\"5317\">Indeed, students are about twice as likely to die at their home campuses than in another country, according to the Forum on Education Abroad, which established a <a href=\"https:\/\/forumea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Critical-Incident-Database-2014-report.pdf\">database of incidents<\/a> in 2014. That year, 313 incidents were reported, 80 percent of them an illness; gastrointestinal ailments were a major culprit. Four deaths \u2014 two accidental, two from pre-existing medical conditions \u2014 were also <a href=\"https:\/\/forumea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ForumEA_InsuranceClaims_MortalityRateStudentsAbroad.pdf\">reported <\/a>by study-abroad insurance providers. The 2015 incidents report will include Nohemi Gonzalez\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"238\" data-total-count=\"5555\">As unlikely as Nohemi\u2019s death was, it was not random. Her assassins did not set out to kill a Mexican-American design student in particular, but they did set out to murder what she represents: the freedom of pleasure, choice and agency.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"401\" data-total-count=\"5956\">Colleges are brave institutions. They must be part of the forces that shape the lives of young adults during their most alert and seeking years. As parents and educators, it\u2019s our job to ensure that we protect these freedoms for our young people \u2014 here, at home \u2014 and instill in them the values and responsibilities that such liberties require. Then we can set them free, and hope it\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"144\" data-total-count=\"6100\">Most students who return from a semester or more of international study report greater maturity and a clearer understanding of their own values.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"352\" data-total-count=\"6452\">Living and learning in another culture is more important than ever \u2014 for the individual students, of course, but also because the empathy such experiences foster is crucial in maintaining a safer, more loving world. No other single experience comes as close to building a new perspective on citizenship and place as study in another country. Nothing.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"252\" data-total-count=\"6704\">Nohemi\u2019s brief immersion in that experience made her life, I am convinced, a larger one. This was a woman who refused to be constrained by tradition or circumstance. She chose knowledge instead of ignorance. She chose to imagine a future for herself.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"152\" data-total-count=\"6856\" data-node-uid=\"1\">That she did not get to inhabit that future breaks our hearts but not our resolve to leave our homes and expand our notion of citizenship and belonging.<\/p>\n<footer>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Barbara E. Murphy is a former president of Johnson State College and of the Community College of Vermont and is the author of the poetry collection \u201cAlmost Too Much.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<address>A version of this article appears in print on November 6, 2016, on page ED23 of Education Life with the headline: Remembering Nohemi.<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong> <a id=\"LPlnk247130\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/06\/education\/edlife\/remembering-nohemi-gonzalez-a-year-later.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/06\/education\/edlife\/remembering-nohemi-gonzalez-a-year-later.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"LPlnk786144\" href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4566362\/paris-one-year-later\/\">http:\/\/time.com\/4566362\/paris-one-year-later\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/abc7.com\/tag\/paris-terror-attack\/\">PARIS TERROR ATTACK<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h1>Parents of Nohemi Gonzalez, student killed in Paris attacks, accept her Cal State Long Beach degree<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div data-imgsrc=\"http:\/\/cdn.abclocal.go.com\/content\/kabc\/images\/cms\/automation\/vod\/1346141.jpg\" data-imgalt=\"Parents of slain Paris attacks student accept her CSULB degree\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Parents of slain Paris attacks student accept her CSULB degree\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.abclocal.go.com\/content\/kabc\/images\/cms\/automation\/vod\/1346141_800x450.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>An emotional graduation service was held at Cal State Long Beach Thursday morning as the parents of Nohemi Gonzalez, who was killed in the Nov. 13 Paris terror attacks, accepted her degree. (KABC)<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<div>\n<p>By <a itemprop=\"name\" href=\"http:\/\/abc7.com\/about\/newsteam\/john-gregory\" rel=\"author\">John Gregory <\/a><time title=\"Thursday, May 19, 2016\" datetime=\"2016-05-19T21:05:55Z\">Thursday, May 19, 2016<\/time><\/p>\n<section><\/section>\n<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) \u2013<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>An emotional graduation service was held at Cal State Long Beach Thursday morning as the parents of Nohemi Gonzalez, who was killed in the Nov. 13 Paris terror attacks, accepted her degree.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez, 23, was a senior studying industrial design abroad in Paris at the time the terrorist attacks happened. She would have been the first member of her family to graduate from college.<\/p>\n<p>For her mother, Beatrice Gonzalez, and her father, Jose Hernandez, walking up to the podium was bittersweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always get emotional when it comes to remembering all the achievements of my daughter. It\u2019s very sad for me,\u201d Beatrice said. \u201cShe\u2019s always going to live in my heart and the diploma is going to remind me of the wonderful person that she was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only was the degree important, CSULB held a special place in Gonzalez\u2019s heart. Family members said she planned to make the school a permanent part of her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis campus was her home. This campus was her heart, and yes, she was excited to graduate and to do other things in her career \u2013 but she knew she would never leave,\u201d her brother Juan Duran said.<\/p>\n<p>As graduates accepted their degrees amid cheers and smiles, pride and sadness gripped Gonzalez\u2019s mother and father. Gonzalez\u2019s name was the first to be read at the ceremony and it was greeted to a standing ovation from everyone in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video:<\/strong> <a id=\"LPlnk888104\" href=\"http:\/\/abc7.com\/news\/parents-of-student-slain-in-paris-attacks-accept-her-csulb-degree\/1346107\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/abc7.com\/news\/parents-of-student-slain-in-paris-attacks-accept-her-csulb-degree\/1346107\/<\/a><\/p>\n<header>\n<div>\n<h2 itemprop=\"headline\">Reynaldo Gonzalez breaks down while remembering his daughter Nohemi Gonzalez, Paris attack victim, at her funeral at the Calvary Chapel in Downey, Calif., Friday, Dec. 4, 2015.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 itemprop=\"headline\"><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"Reynaldo Gonzalez breaks down while remembering his daughter Nohemi Gonzalez, Paris attack victim, at her funeral at the Calvary Chapel in Downey, Calif., Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. Gonzalez was the 23 year-old Cal State Long Beach student who was killed while dining with friends at a bistro in Paris l\" alt=\"Reynaldo Gonzalez breaks down while remembering his daughter Nohemi Gonzalez, Paris attack victim, at her funeral at the Calvary Chapel in Downey, Calif., Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. Gonzalez was the 23 year-old Cal State Long Beach student who was killed while dining with friends at a bistro in Paris l\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-57bcb6d0\/turbine\/sdut-reynaldo-gonzalez-breaks-down-w-20160823\/550\/550x309\" data-baseurl=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-57bcb6d0\/turbine\/sdut-reynaldo-gonzalez-breaks-down-w-20160823\" data-c-nd=\"2048x1562\" data-ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"550\" data-height=\"300\" \/><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<p>Reynaldo Gonzalez breaks down while remembering his daughter Nohemi Gonzalez, Paris attack victim, at her funeral at the Calvary Chapel in Downey, Calif., Friday, Dec. 4, 2015. Gonzalez was the 23 year-old Cal State Long Beach student who was killed while dining with friends at a bistro in Paris last month. (Genaro Molina\/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool)<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press. Copyright \u00a9 2016, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\">The San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong> <a id=\"LPlnk683171\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/sdut-reynaldo-gonzalez-breaks-down-w-20160823-photo.html\">http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/sdut-reynaldo-gonzalez-breaks-down-w-20160823-photo.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a id=\"LPlnk854512\" href=\"https:\/\/www.francaisdeletranger.org\/en\/2015\/11\/15\/mdfdefrance-usa-in-memory-of-california-nohemi-gonzalez-and-the-131-victims-of-paris-terror-attack-on-111315-jesuisparis-notafraid\/\">https:\/\/www.francaisdeletranger.org\/en\/2015\/11\/15\/mdfdefrance-usa-in-memory-of-california-nohemi-gonzalez-and-the-131-victims-of-paris-terror-attack-on-111315-jesuisparis-notafraid\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lbpost.com A remembrance event will be held Sunday at Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) for senior design student Nohemi Gonzalez\u2014the only American killed in last November\u2019s Paris attacks. https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/2000009932-gathering-slated-sunday-for-csulb-student-killed-in-paris-attacks-one-year-ago \u00a0 \u00a0 Latest: A tree for Nohemi: Family and friends mark year since Long Beach student&#8217;s death in Paris attack Niran Jayasiri helps shovel dirt around 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