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Jan 20, 2009 1:17 pm US/Pacific

Obama's Former College Celebrates Inauguration

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Occidental College in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles is a place Barack Obama left behind. But the school's most famous alumnus was celebrated Tuesday like a favorite son as hundreds of cheering students crammed a campus theater to watch the nation's 44th president take the oath of office.

Students donned commemorative T-shirts bearing the new president's smiling face, and when he appeared on an oversized TV screen displaying the Washington ceremony, the audience erupted in a standing ovation.

Outside the theater, students snapped photos with a life-sized photograph of Obama below an oversized banner "President Obama '83," his class year at the college. Talk of change was everywhere, along with school pride.

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