Word: czars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Race czar and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles wrapped yards of red tape around the glowing coals of the previous spring's tense campus atmosphere, building committees, holding meetings and heralding a new scheme for College policy...
...race relations situation at Harvard is far from ideal, and the race relations offices here are ineffectual. No, Archie C. Epps III is not to blame. The Dean of Students, who was appointed "race czar" last September, came under fire from leaders of the Asian American Association (AAA) during the final weeks of the school year...
Epps record so far as race relations czar is not perfect. But we have a certain amount of faith in Epps, and we agree strongly with his overarching vision that diversity is a means, not an end. Epps has talked recently about centralizing Harvard's race relations efforts under one "umbrella;" Counter and Hernandez-Gravelle do not belong under that umbrella. We hope Epps puts his own creative vision and the interests of good race relations over outmoded structures like the Foundation and the Office of Race Relations...
...time, Epps called AAA's letter "irresponsible" and called the letter "full of unsubstantiated smears" in an interview late last month. President Neil L. Rudenstine strongly defended Epps a week later, calling the Race Czar "even-handed...
...certainly was surprised. But I'm not when someone greets me in Russian. Just because Dean Epps is the Colleges' race relations czar doesn't make something he says more insensitive than when someone addresses me in the language of my great-grandparents--in fact, it's not insensitive at all. An effort to build a better race relations policy has not been weakened by any of Dean Epps' policies so far, but instead by false accusations made without any regard for sensitivity...