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These two sides of his job came together in May 1995 when Sinedu Tadesse ’96 stabbed her roommate Trang Phuong Ho ’96 to death. Epps held a series of meetings with students and administrators to provide a forum for discussing the tragedy. The murder...
As an associate dean in 1969, Epps experienced first-hand the social upheavals on campus during the tumultuous period. When University Hall was taken over by the Students for a Democratic Society, Epps resisted the takeover and was physically carried out of the building by the students.
“In conversation with him he was very warm and approachable,” Eric R. Rosenbaum ’01 said of Epps while he was dean.
One of the most prominent black administrators at the College, Epps attempted to facilitate race relations on campus. While a teaching fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 1964, he examined in a piece published in The Crimson how the Civil Rights Movement had reached an impasse. As...
Epps edited a book, The Speeches of Malcolm X at Harvard, which was published in 1967 and reissued in 1991.