Word: alpert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experiments on drugs that alter perception have long since stopped at 5 Divinity Avenue; Dr. Leary departs from the University to establish headquarters in Mexico, while Dr. Alpert remains in the employ of the graduate School of Education. Is the stoppage of drug experiments yet another encroachment on academic freedom, or is it protection against a bunch of nuts? Should, and can, the University wash its hands of experimentation with drugs, or is there perhaps something in the whole embarrassment that is valuable and worth encouraging...
...official drug activities of Leary, Alpert and others at the Center for Research in Personality, have been subject to three charges: that they are medically dangerous, that they are scientifically indefensible, and that they are intellectually reprehensible. Let us look at these charges one by one, and see what the replies can mean for the University...
Leary, one of the founders of IFIF, also announced that his connections with the University will end in June, but that his associate, Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology and of Education, will remain at Harvard next year. Leary said his own plans include writing and working on the two journals which IFIF will publish...
...research of Leary and Alpert into the effects of psilocybin, a hallucinogenic drug, first became a subject of public controversy last spring. At that time other members of the Center for Research in Personality questioned the propriety of the research methods of Leary and Alpert...
This fall, Dean Monro and Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, revived the controversy in an open letter warning undergraduates of the dangers of "mind-distorting drugs." The letter, widely reported, did not mention Leary or Alpert, or the Center for Research in Personality...