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A group of St. Thomas students is organizing a petition to continue the school’s joint theater partnership with St. Catherine University. When the St. Thomas theater department dissolved last year, the administration committed to supporting theater productions between the two universities, but only for the 2009-2010 school year.

St. Thomas law professor Teresa Collett announced this week she will seek the Republican endorsement for Congress in Minnesota’s Fourth District.

The seat is held by Democrat Betty McCollum, who was first elected in 2000. The Fourth District includes St. Thomas’s St. Paul campus.

With Toyota’s accelerator recall making headlines, St. Thomas students seem relatively unaffected by the problem.

Nationwide, 2.3 million vehicles, comprising eight models, have been recalled. Toyota’s Lexus and Scion brands are not included in the recall.

A group of Gustavus Adolphus College students and faculty members are among those awaiting evacuation in Peru after mudslides swept an area near Machu Picchu.