This section contains a collection of various unpublished papers that I have written during my 30+ years in the field. These unpublished papers are unpublished for a reason. For some of the papers, journal reviewers did not think that the papers were worth publishing, and I ended up shelving them. For other papers, I had no idea (and still do not have any idea) where to attempt to publish them, or if publishing them is even worthwhile.
At the moment, there are only two papers that are actively available. The first is a paper on graduate admissions. I originally wrote this paper when I was a young faculty member at Penn State. I am including it, because, despite the age of the paper, the content is as relevant now as it was then. The second paper reflects my weirdness. When I was preparing to go to college, I needed to learn to type. So I sat at my father's typewriter and learned to type by typing up copies of poems, thoughts, and other scraps of ideas that I found interesting. I kept adding these scraps to small box that I carried around during my undergraduate years and afterwards. When I was in Iowa on sabbatical, I decided to go through the box and put together those scraps. These ideas are collected under the heading of "cobwebs" because the ideas represent sticky strands that stuck to parts of my mind. As much as possible, I have tried to list the authors for all of these ideas. Unfortunately, there were various ideas for which I did not record the source.
21 August 2004