Dow Recruiters Interview 100 Business School Men

Dow has been here and gone. Four recruiters from the Dow Chemical Corporation in Midlands, Mich., interviewed some 100 Business School students last Thursday and Friday.

"We like to come and go very quietly," one of the interviewers said. Although debate over Dow's visit to interview undergraduates this Friday continues, the Business School stay was uneventful.

Edward L. White, Lawrence Saphier, J. William Everson, and David Entwisle, recruiters for the chemical company said that they conducted interviews for a "complete range of corporate positions."

"We had no trouble at all," Everson said yesterday. "Here we're talking about business. It is quite different from the scientific end," he said.

Straight Purposes

According to Everson no one signed up for the interviews for anything but business purposes. "We had resumes of people we were interested in," he said, "but anyone who signed up was welcome."

"I've been recruiting at Harvard for 15 years," Everson added, "and we had a very normal visit. We had a full schedule."

Dow's involvement in the Vietnam war was mentioned only in passing. Interviewer Edward Saphier said "there were brief comments about the fact that we had received adverse publicity. I agreed."

SDS Decides

SDS member Mark Dyen '70 said that he had heard about the proposed Dow visit early last week. "We decided there wasn't much use trying to do anything," he said, "because there just isn't much of a base for protest over at the Business School."

"Maybe we're lucky," said John E. Steele, Director of Placement at the Business School, said yesterday. "That's one advantage with working with the older group. If we had had undergraduates we might have had trouble."