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...would have led to religious discrimination. Only one speaker, Pete Seeger, has been barred in recent years, and that ill-considered action was reversed after heavy protest. Last spring the University even permitted one of its rooms to be used for a meeting protesting the dismissal of Dr. Richard Alpert from the Faculty for violating a University rule in his psilocybin research...
Psilocybin had first become an issue in March, 1962, when members of the Center for Research in Personality charged, at a closed meeting, that drug experiments were being conducted in an un-scientific and irresponsible manner. The upshot of the controversy was a pledge by Leary and Alpert not to give drugs to undergraduates--and a ruling by the Massachusetts Food and Drug Division that the drugs could be administered only in the presence of a physician...
Leary and Alpert disputed this contention in a letter to the CRIMSON December 10, calling the University position "conservative from the administrative point of view" but "reckless and inaccurate from the scientific...
...commenting on the extraordinary dismissal of Alpert in a front-page editorial on May 28 the CRIMSON said that the University's action "should not be construed as an abridgement of academic freedom" because the University had reacted to "willful repudiation" of reasonable scientific and experimental safeguards...
...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 editorial said...