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...Alpert and Leary in a long letter to the Crimson attacked this official University position, calling it "conservative from the administrative point of view" but "reckless and inaccurate from the scientific...
...Alpert and Leary next appeared in the news in February 1963, when their "communal home" in Newton involved them in zoning litigation. In March, the two psychologists started an extensive recruiting campaign for IFIF. In the literature they mailed to many persons in Cambridge, they said they had separated their researches amicably from the University...
...speech at Leverett House on May 1, 1963. Alpert expressed regret that Harvard had found it necessary to rule that no undergraduates could take part in his experiments and said he hoped that those who did not understand the drugs or feared new developments would not prevent him and others from continuing the experiments...
DRUGS BEGAN TO ASSUME a new importance in society in the early Sixties, when they suddenly became the property of the respectable middle class. At Harvard, two denizens of William James Hall, Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, were using the "mind-expanding" drug pscilocybin in experiments on students. Andrew L. Weil '64, now Andrew E. Weil M.D., was The Crimson's drug expert at the time even though he was also a Poonie--and did the bright, relentless, comprehensible reporting which led to the eventual banning of the experiments and termination of Leary and Alpert...
...Perkins '23, the redoubtable Master of Lowell House, probably spoke for almost the entire Faculty when he said: "Undergraduates shouldn't be involved in this or any other damned experiments." The vote of the Faculty to ban drug experiments made Crimson headlines, and eventually led to the termination of Alpert's contract, when he illegally administered the drugs to students and left Cambridge during term time without permission--and without making arrangements for his classes. The Crimson had played a large role in exposing the goings-on in William James...