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Student robbed of personal items in Memorial Library

University of Wisconsin-Madison police are conducting an ongoing investigation from Nov. 20, when a man approached a UW-Madison student at Memorial Library and demanded her cell phone and other items in the library?s study carrels. In what police are calling a strong armed robbery, the student gave her items to the suspect when he approached her at 10:04 a.m., according to UWPD spokesperson Lt. Mark Silbernagel. She was not harmed during the incident.