Word: maier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because it is accessible only by boat or plane, Isle Royal National Park in Lake Superior is still uncrowded. The 45-mile-long island is a glacier-compacted wilderness of immense topographical variety, pierced by 120 miles of trails. Says Backpacker Eddie Maier, an environmental engineer from Lansing, Mich.: "When you step on the island, it's like stepping back 200 years." Flora and fauna spotters can look for 101 varieties of wildflowers, 40 varieties of birds and five kinds of fish that are unique to the island; moose can be seen swimming in birch-fringed coves. For those...
...students, all former low-level supervisors, alleged that the patrol's coordinator, Samford L. Maier, a third-year law student, had collected pay by adding unworked patrol hours to other member's paychecks and had been paid while on Christmas vacation. The group also alleged that it was common practice for supervisors to write in their names for vacant patrol shifts and obtain compensation for what was said to be time spent supervising...
...statement released yesterday did not identify Maier by name, but sources who have seen the report said the findings quoted referred to Maier's actions...
...Maier declined to comment yesterday on the report's contents...
...release said that the conduct of one student, whom sources identified as Maier, "is more accurately described as carelessness and casualness, where he should have been scrupulous; we have not gotten the impression he was defrauding the University...