President Barack Obama is now in possession of a No. 44 Badgers basketball jersey. That was one of the gifts that UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin gave our 44th president when he visited campus last week, the first sitting president to come to the university in 60 years. Martin was Obama?s official greeter, she explained in an e-mail, before he spoke to a raucous crowd of 17,000 on Library Mall in an attempt to energize Democrats for the midterm elections. She welcomed the president in Memorial Library, along with UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson, UW System President Kevin Reilly, and the chair of student government, Brandon Williams.
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