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Epps came to be a symbol of Harvard's conservatism when, as an assistant dean of the College, he resisted the protestors who forced administrators out of University Hall in the 1969 takeover. He was later one of the three University affiliates who presented disciplinary casesagainst the students involved.
During his time at the College, Epps shaped andreshaped the administrative structures that dealwith race, most recently by putting into place asystem of race relations tutors in the Houses andhelping create the Harvard Foundation forIntercultural and Race Relations.
But some minority activists said Epps' workmerely gave administrators something to point toin response to complaints about race relations.
In 1992, after a dispute over the plans of theBlack Students Association (BSA) to bringcontroversial Afro-centrist speaker LeonardJeffries to campus, BSA President Zaheer R. Ali'94 charged that Epps was being used by theadministration to "keep the students in check."
But while Epps' sometimes articulated unpopularstances on behalf of the administration, he alsorepresented students' concerns to administrators.