We're very pleased to announce that Ryan Thoreson of Fargo, North Dakota has won the second annual Nation Student Writing Contest. Thoreson, a 2007 graduate of Harvard University, wrote "Candidates: Leave US Alone," which argues that the electorate's top priority should be the re-establishment of the right to privacy which has been under siege for decades. Thoreson, whose essay was published in the October 22, 2007 issue of The Nation, receives a cash award of $1,000 and a free Nation subscription.
Five finalists were also chosen:
Jason Kaye, Weston High School, Weston, CT
Ketan Ramakrishnan, Madison High School, Madison, WA
Ned Resnikoff, Middletown High School, Middletown, CT
Daniel Mootz, Carlisle High School, Carlisle, PA
Alyssa Battistoni, Stanford University
Each finalist is awarded $250, has been published at The Nation online, and receives a complimentary subscription to the magazine. All of the winning essays can be read at StudentNation.
The winners were chosen from more than 600 submissions from high school and college students in forty-one states. All were asked to send an original, unpublished 800-word essay discussing what they consider the most important issue for young people in the 2008 presidential campaign. The entries arrived from big public institutions and tiny liberal arts colleges, from rural high schools, Indian reservations and large cities. The students who entered the contest are afraid of being drafted, worried about their friends serving in Iraq, struggling with debt and gas prices and anxious about the world they will inherit. Congratulations to our winners and many thanks to all of our many talented applicants. We'll be doing this again next year.
The contest was sponsored by the BIL Charitable Trust to recognize and reward the best in student writing and thinking. We greatly appreciate the support.
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Peter Rothberg,
The Nation
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