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"Certainly Dean Epps did a lot of things I didn't do. But insofar as people are suggesting that he's an advocate for students and no one else is, that's what we do as senior tutors," Bruzelius says. "A lot of what I do is to help people...
Epps' responsibilities have largely consisted of administering extracurricular activities, recognition of student groups and distribution of grant money. Come July, Epps says he will stay on as what he calls "an ombudsman," with a special emphasis on diversity, the senior class, and publishing the Harvard College Journal.
Margaret Bruzelius, Eliot House's senior tutor, says while Epps' former role made him responsible for many things that did not fall into her realm, she too was a student advocate. Eugene C. McAfee, Lowell House senior tutor, says his former masters, Mary and William Bossert '59, would introduce him...
And while Harvard students had grown accustomed to turning to the man with a bow-tie and a flower in his lapel to address their concerns, Lewis and several administrators at other colleges argue that one does not need to be called a "dean of students" to be a dean...
"The oddity of Harvard's structure is Dean Epps' title hasn't really fit for a very long time," says Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans. "At any other college, Dean Lewis would be called dean of students. In a very real sense, Harvard has had two deans of students...