  In "Morava E-theory of symmetric groups", Strickland proved that the Morava
E-theory of the symmetric group has an algebro-geometric interpretation after
taking the quotient by a certain transfer ideal. This result has influenced
most of the work on power operations in Morava E-theory and provides an
important calculational tool. In this paper we give a new proof of this result
as well as a generalization by using transchromatic character theory. The
character maps are used to reduce Strickland's result to representation theory.
