On his historic run to the White House, Barack Obama spent two years at Occidental College, the basketball ... A self-described gym rat who played basketball regularly on the campaign trail ...

"I vividly remember him in the gym being very thin," Newhall says ... Ben Bergman is a producer at Morning Edition and proud alum of Occidental College.

Occidental College is a private liberal-arts college ... with the college having its own dedicated fitness centre and gyms, in addition to introductory classes to various sports and fitness regimes.