In recent papers we have refined a conjecture of Lehrer and Solomon
expressing the character of the representation of a finite Coxeter group $W$ on
the $p$th graded piece of its Orlik-Solomon algebra as a sum of characters
induced from linear characters of centralizers of elements of $W$. Our refined
conjecture relates the character of $W$ on the $p$th graded piece of its
Orlik-Solomon algebra with the descent algebra of $W$.
We refine a conjecture by Lehrer and Solomon on the structure of the
Orlik--Solomon algebra of a finite Coxeter group $W$, related it to the descent
algebra of $W$ and prove the conjecture for symmetric groups.