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While most college students are still sound asleep, St. Thomas first-year Hazel Erickson is wasting no time in her pursuit of a tough profession: politics. She wakes up early two or three days a week and heads to downtown St. Paul before her classes as an intern for Minnesota Public Interest Research Group.

Some neighbors are fed up with the noisy student behavior that comes with the warm weather, but Neighborhood Liaison Amy Gage is working with Undergraduate Student Government in hopes of getting student leaders involved in creating better relations between students and neighbors.

Students gathered in Woulfe Alumni Hall on March 13 for a healthy sex teach-in hosted by St. Thomas’ Feminist Community, which featured a panel of seven St. Thomas students from a variety of sexual identities who talked candidly about their experiences with sex and sexuality.

After Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton suggested a 17-percent increase to state grant funding, St. Thomas students spent their annual Day at the Capitol lobbying and showing support for the budget increase.

St. Thomas seemed to be on the cutting edge in the 1990s when music professor Christopher Kachian developed its first completely online course. Since then, however, the university’s online course offering has been relatively stagnant.