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Michael Lloyd, Ph.D.
Proofreaders
Peggy Dunn Bailey, Ph.D.
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Linda English, Ph.D.
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Wayne McGinnis, Ph.D.
Lloyd Moyo, Ph.D.
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Michael Taylor, M.F.A.
Fred Worth, Ph.D.
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Introduction as it appeared in the paper edition
CONTENTS
Peggy Dunn Bailey
"[R]elations in the Unseen": Oracular Romanticism and "The Cry of the Children"
Linda English
Carrie Ford's Barbeque
Travis Langley
Justice Roulette: Dubious Tests of Truth and Sanity in Aurora Massacre Case
Michael Lloyd
2-Sample t-Distribution Approximation
Wayne McGinnis
The Art of Jack Conroy's The Disinherited, a Novel of the 1930s
Lloyd Moyo
Evaluation of the Dirichlet Integral by a Fourier Transform Method
Kayla Smoke (Mentor: Allison Vetter)
The Effect of Parent's Education on the Educational Aspirations of College Students
Michael Ray Taylor
A Confluence of Greatness: A conversation with Bill Bryson about Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and other historical figures great and small
Fred Worth
Statistical Oddities in Baseball History