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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...
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...
...letter to the CRIMSON on Monday, Leary and Alpert disputed the contention that the drugs were dangerous. They also charged that legitimate scientific research in the drugs is being stifled at Harvard and other universities and forced underground "for the first time since the inquisition...