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Surely the gray-and-white-faced miner depicted on the barn mural in "Rural Murals in Dairyland" [May 16] is not an iron miner but a lead miner, -a representative of the men who settled our area of southwestern Wisconsin in the early 1800s. They holed up in their mines in the winters to become known as Badgers and provided much of the lead used by the North in the Civil War. It is truly fitting that his portrait is the center figure of the mural, for he was in the center of the development of the state...
...Southwestern representatives turn up every spring to persuade Harvard students that their real ambition in life is to spend a summer selling the company's dictionaries door-to-door in some remote area of the Southwest...
Since the company was banned from recruiting on campus in the fall of 1974 because Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, felt its on-campus recruitment meetings could endanger the University's non-profit status, Southwestern recruiters have taken to other methods of attracting students' attention than they once used...
...this week the company took a less legal route to approaching Harvard students. Ira B. Wilson '79, a student recruiter for Southwestern, held ten meetings for the company at the Phillips Brooks House (PBH), calling the series "Ira Wilson conferences...
More importantly, Epps--who is already investigating Southwestern's student recruiters' telephone calls to other students--said this week he believes the meetings directly violate University rules...