Silha Fellows Doug Peters and Elaine Hargrove-Simon presented sessions at the 2003 Minnesota State High School Journalism Convention on Wednesday, September 24.
Peters led a session entitled "The Basics of Press Law" that included topics such as defamation, access to public meetings and records, and First Amendment rights of the student press. Hargrove-Simon's session, entitled "The Right to Know: Where and How to Get the Information You Need" covered Freedom of Information Act and open meeting laws. The convention took place in Coffman Union on the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota.
