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With Knowles' creation of a sub-committee of the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) to investigate ethnic studies, Appiah's committee, which has met only three times, has focused more on bureaucratic than curricular reform. The EPC subcommittee is chaired by Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell.
Most important, however, is the question: Will all the bureaucratic sleight-of-hand which has characterized Epps' tenure as Race Czar amount to substantial improvements in campus race relations?
Now, almost year later, the Race Czar has faced a fiery trial which has included a coalition of minority student groups who dubbed Harvard "the Peculiar Institution," a Boston Globe profile which called him "the water carrier" of the administration, and bureaucratic infighting in his own backyard.
Epps' brand of race relations is a democratic process which values a wide range of opinions but sometimes tows the line of bureaucratic inefficiency.
"I think it's mostly been a lot of bureaucratic shuffle," Raza President Richard Garcia '95 said earlier this year.