Word: alpert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small group of students met in Leverett House Old Library Wednesday night to initiate the first and to date only public protest of the dismissal of Richard Alpert, former assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, for giving hallucinogenic drugs to undergraduates...
When the session concluded, less than a dozen students signed a letter to President Pusey and the Corporation which protested both the firing of Alpert and the rule he was charged with breaking...
While admitting the University had a "right" to fire Alpert, the students said "Harvard has lost not only a brilliant teacher whose interest in his students is a quality too rare here, but also a man of unusual courage and vision. We as students protest this loss...
When he announced Alpert's dismissal, President Pusey noted that the University was not against research with the drugs, but objected to Alpert's disregard of a University ruling...
...spite of this several of Alpert's students are organizing a formal protest of the Corporation's action. Lisa C. Bieberman '63 announced a meeting in the Leverett House Old Library at 8 p.m. tonight "for all students who want to sign a letter condemning the firing of Richard Alpert...