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2008 Atlas Shrugged Contest Winners

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2008 Atlas Shrugged Contest Winners

First Place

Robert Sanders, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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Second Place

Gregory Arney, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
Ryan Krause, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Margaret Wray, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Third Place

Abigail Chernick, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Cadmus Kyrala, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Melanie Martin, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Ryan Menezes, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Tay Tufenkjian, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Finalists

Michael Aikins, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Brad Aisa, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
Stephanie Aldrich, Worcester Academy, Worcester, MA
Paul Bennett, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR
Quinton Champer, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, IL
Thomas Danner, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Andrew Franks, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI
Patrick Gregg, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Laura Harris, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Megan Henricks, Denison University, Granville, OH
Grant Jones, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Jessica Lum, Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT
Katherine McKerall, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
Mark McLaughlin, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Ben O'Neill, Australian National University, Acton, Australia
Laura O'Neill, Trinity College at University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Stephen Paplinski, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
Diane Staats, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Lauren Turpin, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Michael Young, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Semi-Finalists

Daniel Bernal, Grove City College, Grove City, PA
David Bunck, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI
Beth Crock, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, United Kingdom
Gianni Galbiati, Brown University, Providence, RI
Alison Green, Illinois Valley Community College, Oglesby, IL
Starlene Justice, California State University at San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA
Vasiliy Lakoba, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Krista Mehari, Hope College, Holland, MI
Mat Messerschmidt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Barbara Puszkar, Science Po, Paris, France
Mathias Quackenbush, Reed College, Portland, OR
Pablo Romero, Frontrange Community College, Fort Collins, CO
Katelyn Sunohara, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada
Corinne Tamler, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Sam Tenney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Sarah Thompson, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
John Thorlin, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Tom VanAntwerp, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Rachel Vincent, CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College, New York, NY
Mohsin Vora, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

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