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When pro-Palestinian student protests swept college campuses across the country two years ago, the movement at San Francisco State University was an outlier.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, many of the campus encampments and demonstrations against Israel\u2019s war on Gaza had led to clashes with administrators or violent crackdowns by law enforcement. Meanwhile, at SF State, President Lynn Mahoney sat down in front of hundreds on Malcolm X Plaza for what was believed to have been a first-of-its-kind public negotiation session between school leaders and students, which led to a change to the school\u2019s endowment investment policy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are one of the only schools in the entire nation that got divestment,\u201d said Sam Silva, a graduate student in SF State\u2019s communication studies department. \u201cThat is a pretty huge deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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