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Cultural exchange SU graduate students may visit

Timely trip John Sumpter tells why

Going to the moon Get ready for Kid Cudi’s new album

Round 2 The Syracuse men’s basketball team

public schools near Fort Drum to teach about Afghan culture. Page 3

Obama’s trip to Asia is an important political move. Page 5

by listening to these key Cudi tracks. Page 11

takes on Le Moyne on Tuesday in an exhibition one year after the Dolphins shocked the Orange. Page 16

Saudi prince offers view on Middle East progress By Beckie Strum News Editor

The best way for Arab nations to develop and modernize is for them to do so for themselves at their own pace, said Prince of Saudi Arabia Turki bin Faisal Al Saud. “Nations, like men, have their infancy, and nations, like men, must grow to survive,” said Al Saud, former Saudi ambassador to the United States, among many

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Dedication to results stirs Casey

other roles in international and Saudi politics. Al Saud spoke to more than 300 students, faculty and administrators in Maxwell Auditorium on Monday evening on Saudi Arabia’s development and struggles throughout the past 80 years. He said the state continues to fall behind in the realm of women’s rights, and he urged American leaders to put more

By Jillian Anthony Contributing Writer

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brandon weight | staff photographer turki bin faisal al saud, prince of Saudi Arabia, cites his nation as a model of Middle Eastern growth in a speech Monday.

keith edelman | staff photographer neal casey, the unopposed candidate for Student Association president, plans to increase student involvement in his organization.

The sole candidate for Student Association president, Neal Casey spends 30 hours a week working as the chairman of the Student Life Committee. When the uncontested elections are over, Casey expects that number to rise or possibly double. “Most of my time — actually, all of my time — goes to SA,” Casey said. “Any free time I have, I’m in the office. And I only expect that to increase.” After holding several positions with SA since the end of his freshman year, Casey, a junior supply chain and finance major, said he believes he is ready for the challenge of president. Casey is running on the platform of “Putting Students First” and said he plans to make SA a more resultsbased and student-focused organization. Co-workers describe Casey the same way he describes himself, as someone who takes the initiative to make things happen. “On a broader level, I can see the

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DPS arrests alleged drunk laptop thief by Shaw Students worry over safety By Michael Boren Asst. News Editor

An allegedly intoxicated man stole up to four laptops and led Department of Public Safety officers on a foot chase Saturday before being arrested outside Shaw Hall, said DPS Capt. Andy Mrozienski. The suspect was not a Syracuse University student, and it was not clear which laptops were stolen from Shaw or from Slocum Hall, where the suspect was first spotted, Mrozienski said. He would not provide the name or age of the suspect, who faced a total of 11 charges. DPS charged the suspect with

three counts of third-degree burglary, two counts of fourth-degree grand larceny, petit larceny, criminal trespassing, two counts of fourthdegree criminal possession of stolen property, one count of fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and resisting arrest. Students called DPS at 7:20 p.m. on Saturday from Slocum and said there was a suspicious person who had stolen laptops, Mrozienski said. Students then called DPS from Shaw at 7:32 p.m. DPS officers saw the suspect leaving Shaw and stopped him, Mrozienski said. “The troops came in and sur-

rounded the area, grabbed him, then he wanted to fight,” Mrozienski said. “Then he ran, and he kind of ran around in a circle a couple times between Comstock, Ostrom, Euclid.” DPS officers caught the suspect once, but he got away and officers had to catch him again, Mrozienski said. The suspect was breathing heavily after the chase and transported to a hospital, Mrozienski said. A DPS officer who was “huffing and puffing” was also taken to the hospital for precautionary measures, Mrozienski said. He declined to name the hospital to which both were taken. mcboren@syr.edu

after recent robbery string By Michael Boren Asst. News Editor

A recent string of off-campus robberies, one in which two students were allegedly robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight, has the Department of Public Safety adding patrols to the streets and some students taking more precautions. The past weekend marked a lull in robberies after DPS reported that three males in a dark blue Pontiac sedan stole a student’s laptop and money on the 100 block of Redfield

Place at 10:45 p.m. on Nov. 1 and then demanded money from a student on the 700 block of Clarendon Street at 6:30 a.m. the next day. Syracuse police pulled over several out-of-state residents in a vehicle Nov. 2 and conducted an investigation to see if they were connected to the robberies, said DPS Capt. Andy Mrozienski. But police released them after three robbery victims, two of which were Syracuse University students, could not identify them as the

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