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...Epps??s day has disappeared but “Community Conversations” remains, albeit in a slightly altered form. Over the past few years the pieces shifted toward equally pressing issues for freshmen, like perfectionism. However, following 2007’s “Quad Incident,” in which a group of black students were questioned by the Harvard police, the Freshman Dean’s Office seems to have decided that the readings needed to be refocused radically. In the process, it produced a program that consciously rejected not only Epps?...
...difficult to overestimate the significance of Epps?? regiment. Whether or not it aided racial integration is irrelevant, though it probably did. This was Harvard’s first mandatory intellectual anything in 43 years, and it is everything the Core is not. The program legislates importance; the text is decided by administrative fiat. It built a community: Everyone underwent a shared experience. Epps had singlehandedly revived a tradition that had been dead at Harvard for almost half a century...
...Epps?? stances, however, did not always coincide with those of black student leaders on campus. He expressed opposition to the approach of reformers who focused solely on racial matters...
...recent weekday morning, a bouquet of deteriorating flowers at the base of a monument neighboring Epps?? grave is the only sign that anyone has walked through Harvard’s171-year-old burial ground near the center of Mount Auburn Cemetery...
...last four people to be buried at Harvard Hill—founder of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies Albert Szabo, Associate Dean of Freshmen Burris Young ’55, Rawls and Epps??spent a cumulative total of 138 years working at Harvard...