"We started that defense of Harvard with too little forces," he added.

Even as police surrounded the building and 500 state police officers disembarked from school buses, Glimp tried to convince the students to leave peaceably.

"He was at the front of the line to issue a warning: 'Please leave the building or you will be arrested,'" Epps says.

Epps says he was struck by Glimp's tenacity in entering the building.

"'What courage,' I thought," Epps says.

Epps watched from afar as Glimp's final attempt to end the standoff was unsuccessful, and the state police began to force their way in.

"I was standing on the corner of Widener wondering, 'What am I doing here now that everything's started?'" he says.

After University Hall was reclaimed, Epps was one of the three University affiliates chosen to present disciplinary cases against the 300 students involved in the takeover.

"We presented them in heavily guarded chambers in the Holyoke Center," Epps says. "Our role was to present the evidence."

Although the takeover and its aftermath were controversial, Epps says he felt confident about his role in disciplining students for their involvement.

"I had no qualms about presenting it," he says. "The people were wrong. It didn't matter what they thought about Vietnam. What was wrong was the attack on the University."