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New Jersey’s annual commencement season, which ramped up last weekend at Rutgers University and several other locations, is taking place this year amid a national focus on campus protests stemming from the Israel-Hamas war. Several college commencement ceremonies around the nation have been disrupted as graduates have chanted or walked out in protests. Approximately 60 of the 4,200 graduates walked out in a pro-Palestinian protest at Sunday’s commencement ceremony for Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences students. The walkout happened on the same day that…

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