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...Twenty years after they were kicked out for their experiments with LSD. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert returned to Harvard to reminisce. They were greeted by a packed Sanders Theater audience, which cheered at such statements as "I think it's possible that you might damage your mind, but I don't think LSD does...
...from the fraternal order of lambda sigma delta returned to the old campus last week for the first time since being ousted 20 years ago for involving students in their experiments with mind-altering drugs. Timothy Leary, 62, the pop promoter of LSD in the '60s, and Richard Alpert, 49, now known as Baba Ram Dass, showed up in a rented hall thick with students, many of whom were on mother's milk when the pair achieved their notoriety. Harvard, said Leary, is still "the main line of American transcendental thinking...
...Alpert's dismissal should not be construed as an abridgement of academic freedom. The University has supported his researches and has been more than reasonable in the precautions it has asked him to take. In dismissing him, it reacted to willful repudiation of these safeguards. But surely the University has not taken this exceptional step in response to meer misdemeanors. In firing Richard Alpert, Harvard has dissociated itself not only from flagrant dishonesty but also from behavior that is spreading infection throughout the academic community. The Harvard Crimson...
What we are remembering this weekend is a controversy in the history of Harvard which filled the pages of The Crimson and preoccupied the national news media for months 20 years ago Drs. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, both psychologist and members of the Harvard. Faculty, had discovered psilocybin, a consciousness altering substance in the "magic mushroom," and were busy persuading graduates and un dergraduates to take it--in some in stances as part of a course for credit They arranged sessions--called "drug trips" by their opposition--for groups as diverse as prisoners in the Concord Reformatory and worshippers...
...bring about heaven on earth or create especially enlightened beings as its advocates contended it would, nor did it destroy the mind or create addiction as its opponents feared. So was the controversy a tempest in a teapot or does it have a wider significance? Leary and Alpert are back at Harvard to give their perspective on what it has all meant. I was involved in the controversy throughout because I had encouraged bringing both of them to Harvard (before they got involved with LSD), because I initially thought that research into mind altering substances was legitimate (I was working...