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今年，我们收到了创纪录的 9，275 篇论文——或者换句话说，近 400 万字——来自世界各地学生，以回应我们的第五届年度社论大赛，因此选择九名获奖者、26 名亚军和 38 名荣誉奖并非易事。
参与者讨论了当时的重大问题，如枪支管制，气候变化和#MeToo，但他们也谈到了小众话题，例如对女牧师的需求或将“真实犯罪”视为娱乐所固有的危险。许多学生写下了他们个人遇到的问题，比如在上学期间坐得太久，在家庭感恩节聚餐上讨论政治，或者参与公民不服从，以至于梭罗会“在他的坟墓里打滚”。
为了在像这场比赛这样受欢迎的比赛中得到认可，一篇社论需要从第一段开始吸引我们的注意力，并将其保持到最后。论点必须合理，证据确凿，反驳必须解决。这件作品还必须有声音和个性，而不仅仅是对一个问题的基本利弊的总结。
最低要求也很重要。进入第二轮、第三轮和第四轮的论文必须遵守规则，例如，同时列出《泰晤士报》和非《泰晤士报》来源。至少有一个精彩的条目必须从考虑中删除，因为“引用的作品”包括五篇《纽约时报》文章，但没有一篇来自其他任何地方。
从 5 月 24 日开始，我们将在每个上学日发布前九名作文之一的帖子，我们希望您在社交媒体上传播，挂在学校公告板上，甚至可能用作明年比赛的“导师文本”。之后，我们将在一个帖子中一起发布所有亚军。您可以在本专栏中找到它们。
而且，正如我们去年所做的那样，我们正在发布这份名单，列出了进入第三轮评审的 133 名决赛入围者 （PDF），其中包括 59 篇没有完全进入获胜者圈子的社论。
学生社论比赛获奖者
下面的每个类别都按标题的字母顺序列出了我们的最爱。在缺少标题的地方，我们想出了自己的标题。
前九名获奖者
“A Generation Zer’s Take on the Social Media Age” by Elena Quartararo, age 17
“Accountability-Based Testing Is Broken” by Alan Peng, age 17
“Civil Obedience” by Anushka Agarwal, age 16
“Dinner Table Politics” by Bridget Smith, age 15
“Is It Actually Smart to Sit Still?” by Hannah Amell, age 15
“Is True Crime as Entertainment Morally Defensible?” by Rachel Chestnut, age 17
“Politics and the Olympics” by Joanne Yang, age 15
“The 4th R: Real Life” by Jason Schnall, age 16
“The Case for Lowering the Voting Age” by Kathryn Zaia, age 14
亚军
我们亚军的所有作品都可以在这里找到。
“A 4.0 GPA and I Still Know Nothing” by Rachel Levine, age 17
“A Peaceful Passing” by Elina Niyazov, age 19
“A Prodigy for Your Progeny” by Kaiser Ke, age 16
“Abolish the Office of First Lady to Put Ladies First” by Catherine Lin, age 17
“America’s ‘Boys in Blue’ Can be Green Too” by Akshay Raj, age 15
“‘Corrective Statements’ Don’t Fix Anything” by McKenna Tanner, age 15
“Do Asians Play a Role on the Great White Way?” by Sungchin Eraso, age 16
“Driving: It’s Going Out of Style” by Emma Chiu, age 15
“Fairness in Education” by Xiaolin Ding, age 17
“I CAN’T HEAR YOU: Echo Chambers in America” by Kevin Tang, age 16
“Is Trump’s Wall a Solution or Just Another Tourist Attraction?” by Lechen Dong, age 18
“It Is Time to Abolish the Electoral College” by Joseph Saber, age 16
“It’s Time to Legalize the World’s Oldest Profession” by Ashlyn DesCarpentrie, age 17
“Let Children of Color Be Characters, Too” by Sandra Chen, age 16
“Making Room for All Chinese in China’s Capital” by Yuxin Long, age 17
“Sex Ed and Abortion in America: Hypocrisy at Its Finest” by Sylvia Hollander, age 17
“The Future of the #MeToo Movement Through the Eyes of a 17-Year-Old Boy” by Charles Gstalder, age 17
“The Net Neutrality Repeal: An Attack on Free Expression and Communication” by Ainsley Tia Lim, age 15
“The Price of Preserving Patriarchy in India” by Uma Bhat, age 15
“The Trouble With Teen Movies” by Olivia Newman, age 18
“Trivializing Mental Illness Makes Me Depressed” by Lola Byers-Ogle, age 15
“Turning the Page to a New Era” by Casey Webb, age 16
“Under Black Cloaks” by Bincheng Mao, age 16
“Vice for Vice” by Eugene Hong, age 15
“Want to End the Shortage of Priests? Ordain Women” by Elizabeth Meisenzahl, age 16
“Why We Must Act on #MeToo” by Bhargavi Garimella, age 17
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荣誉奖
“A New Gender of Birth Control” by Corinne Lee, age 17
“A Non-Partisan Evaluation of Abortion Restrictions” by Nesim Nahmiyas, age 16
“A Plea to America” by Carter Sargent, age 17
“A Small Gesture to Address Women’s Rights in China” by Athena Song, age 16
“Affordable National Parks for All” by Ayden Nichol, age 17
“An Invisible Dilemma” by Jennifer Zheng, age 16
“Are Cryptocurrencies Currencies?” by Graham Everhart, age 16
“Beyond Selfies: Technology as an Instrument for Change” by Haley Choi, age 17
“Chivalry Is on Life Support: Here’s Why We Should Pull the Plug” by Mia DeAngelo, age 16
“Do Black Lives Matter in the #NeverAgain Movement” by Penelope Martindale, age 16
“Does the Women’s March Matter?” by Serena Lin, age 17
“Don’t Hold Those With Down Syndrome Down” by Hannah Yelle, age 16
“Google’s Absence of Search Neutrality Needs to Change” by Taylor Goodspeed, age 13
“He Who Must Not Be Named” by Zhu Mingyu, age 17
“How DeAndre Ayton Changed the Game (And Why He Shouldn’t)” by Luke Park, age 16
“Keeping Safe: Ensuring the Parkland Shooting Never Happens Again” by Elliott Notrica, age 14
“Medical Marijuana Must Be Legalized in the United States” by Jack Ledbetter, age 16
“More Wealth Doesn’t Have to Mean More Meat” by Mingxi.Yin, age 17
“NCAA Basketball Is Making Millions, but Players Live in Poverty” by Matthew Varughese, age 15
“Orca Entertainment Is Intolerable” by Lindsay Michaud, age 17
“Redefining Manhood” by Koorosh Nabatian, age 17
“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Roast” by OliviaJ, age 17
“Teenagers: The Modern Cassandra” by Olivia Otremba, age 15
“The Belt, The Road and Us” by Miles Stella, age 17
“The Broken Nature of College Admissions” by India Menon, age 18
“The Case for the Modern Philistine” by Maria Mendoza Blanco, age 15
“The Cyber Threat” by Akshay Manglik, age 14
“The Fight Against Segregation” by Pei Chao Zhuo, age 17
“The Hashtag Misnomer of the Anti-Gun Violence Movement” by Swathi Kella, age 17
“The Line Between Story and Ad Is Dangerously Murky” by Kristina Vakhman, age 19
“The Neutral Net: A Human Right” by Ryan Kovarovics, age 17
“The Perpetual Plastic Problem” by Alisha Zhu, age 16
“The Problematic Filter of Objective Educational Standards” by Troy Chartier-Vignapiano, age 17
“Vacating in Vain” by Kevin Wang, age 16
“When Women Work the World” by Diya Jain, age 13
“Why Aren’t More Girls Pursuing Careers in Computing and Tech Fields?” by Stuti Arora, age 16
“Why Immunize?” by Reed Shepherd, age 15
“Working Girls: Empowered or Endangered?” by Marlee Moe, age 15
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以及所有决赛入围者，包括另外 59 篇进入第 3 轮的精彩社论 （PDF）
评委: Amanda Christy Brown, Shannon Doyne, Caroline Crosson Gilpin, Michael Gonchar, Nadia Murray Goodman, Annissa Hambouz, Thomas Houston, Shira Katz, Willow Lawson, Megan Leder, Joshua Mackin, Sue Mermelstein, Heather Murray, Anna Pendleton, Natalie Proulx, Katherine Schulten, Melissa Slater, Stephanie Yemm and Suzanne Zimbler
A correction was made on
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An earlier version of this article named 10 top winners. We have since discovered that one of the winners submitted more than one essay to the contest. Because that violates our contest rules, we have disqualified it and removed it from the list.