The Minnesota Medical Association was the gracious sponsor of the T-shirt this year.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Student delegates met in Round Tables with members of the community who have an interest in the legislation.  Shown here is Don Johnson, Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Juvenile Division.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
After having met with members of the community and hearing their perspectives on the legislation, student share their opinions and concerns with each other.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Minnesota Attorney General Hubert (Skip) Humphrey, introduced by a Student Planning Committee Member, welcomes students to the 1997 Minnesota Youth Summit.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Minnesota Attorney General Hubert (Skip) Humphrey works with student
delegates as they plan their presentations for the legislature.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Students testify at a special hearing of members of the legislature, including the authors and members of the committees that would hear the bill.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Author Representative Karen Clark questions students on their presentation.  Representative Mary Jo McGuire is facing Representative Clark.  In attendance at the hearing was Attorney General Humphrey, Senators Berglin, Krenz, Pappas, Anderson, Wiger, Reichgott Junge, Ranum and Ourada.  Representatives Clark, Weaver, Wejcman, Knoblach, McGuire, Swenson, Winter, Kelso, Seifert and Osskopp.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Students sign letters to President Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno and to the members of both the Minnesota House of Representatives and Senate.  The students received a reply from Shay Bilchik, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention..."I am particularly delighted to learn that the delegates chose to address legislation to enhance penalties for offenses motivated by bias.  The delegates' efforts to research the subject, gather cime data, survey community members through on opinion poll, write up the report, and present their findings and recommendations to your elected officials is the democratic legislative process in action.  Although your formal work on the issue of bias appears to be completed, I hope that each of you continues to work to rid your community of bias offenses through the education process.  In closing, please share with your fellow delegates who signed the letter how proud we are of the hard work and time on this worthy endeavor.  You and the other 199 delegates have my every good wish for success in helping to make your communities safer."  (The letter was address to the first delegate who signed, Sara Penn and was copied and sent to all the other delegates.)
 

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