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The Gamut: A Journal Of Ideas And Information, No. 10, Fall 1983, Cleveland State University

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CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 10, FALL, 1983

Towpath to Prosperity: The Rise and Fall of Ohio’s Canals 1825-1913, 3

A historical account of the canals’ heyday and their significance to the development of Ohio. (Largely the contribution of Mrs. Edith McNally of the Canal Society of Ohio.)

Richard H. Swain: Captain Pearl R. Nye’s Ohio Canal Songs, 20

Music representative of the canal boat era as sung and preserved by the “last of the Canal Boat Captains.”

Barton R. Friedman: Re-assassinating Lincoln, 35

Was Lincoln an emancipator or just another political opportunist? Friedman examines the arguments and comes to a …

Disaggregation In Deterrence And Death Penalty Research: The Case Of Murder In Chicago, William C. Bailey

Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications

This article examines the deterrent effect of executions on first-degree murders in Chicago, Illinois for the period 1915-1921. Chicago provides an ideal research setting since there is close geographic proximity between the place where first-degree murders are committed and the place where the convicted murderers are executed. The population density factor included in the model is very highly correlated with the nonwhite population, male population fifteen to thirty-four years of age, and the foreign born population variables. In examining monthly first-degree murders and total criminal homicides, two execution measures are utilized: the actual number of monthly executions, and a dummy …

The Gamut: A Journal Of Ideas And Information, No. 09, Spring/Summer 1983, Cleveland State University

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CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO.9, SPRING/SUMMER, 1983

Concrete Poetry Contest Winners, 2

Scott Helmes,

Harsh Language, 5

"Since you've been away . ..”, 6

Karl Kempton: POEM #3: to tie knots, 7

K.S. Ernst: Towering Negativism, 17

Charles Cameron: "She is a plague to us fishers", 18

David Cole: selected pages, 20

R. Prost: "Into the Light", 22

Joel Lipman: from Rex Lee on the Border Patrol, 23

Mark Melnicove: "And not buried in a mass of irrelevant information", 24

James Miller: "The Test Has Always Been . ..", 25

Naomi …

The Gamut: A Journal Of Ideas And Information, No. 08, Winter 1983, Cleveland State University

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CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO.8, WINTER, 1983

Walter C. Leedy, Jr: Cleveland's Terminal Tower: the Van Sweringens' Afterthought, 3

The financial, political, and architectUIal saga of the building of Cleveland's central landmark.

Clinton L. Warne: The Great Natural Gas Pipeline Rip-Off, 27

President Reagan's waiver of all effective regulation of the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline could have a damaging effect on the national economy while insuring private investors' profits.

Jerrold Sadock: Languages of the World: Inuit (Eskimo), 31

The language with the longest words in the world.

Winners of the Gamut Prize in the Visual Arts, 35 …