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...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...
...harsh parting shot, the AAA presidents' letter accused Epps of not keeping in contact with their organization, and with placing no Asian-Americans on three Junior Parents' Weekend panels on race relations. The letter went on to complain about the ineffectiveness two of Epps' actions to improve race relations, a race relations hand-book and an upcoming race relations audit from an outside consulting firm (which was preemptively declared unsuccessful.) The writers charged that Epps had offended a visiting Japanese American performer--a performer who, in an interview, said the incident in question was insignificant. They concluded with a bizarre...
...shouldn't be expected to unquestioningly capitulate to tokenist demands. We can only guess, and hope, that Epps' alleged penchant for speaking in foreign languages comes from an earnest, if slightly misguided, attempt to make minority students feel comfortable. But we can say that the two Epps initiatives the AAA presidents so confidently disparage, the handbook and the audit, are at least genuine attempts to address this campus's race relations problems--attempts that were much rarer before Epps took the race relations helm in September...
...quell the backastabbing. While he persuaded Foundation Director S. Allen Counter and Asssistant Dean of Race Relations Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle to hold five events jointly (in the last five years, they had never done anything together) he was unable stop Counter from such unprofessional, backhanded tricks as encouraging the AAA letter. Counter has made anti-Semitic remarks, and has made Jewish students feel uncomfortable at The Foundation. Hernandez-Gravelle has been more constructive recently in her role as a counselor and behind the scenes advisor. Still, she has an unfortunate tendency to add to the campus's all too prevalent...
...AAA Co-president Haewon Hwang '95 said that she and Co-president Joan R. Cheng '95 briefly discussed their grievances and the idea of the Epps letter with Counter. As quoted in both the May 21 and May 28 articles, Hwang said...