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President Pusey announced on May 27 that the Corporation had terminated the appointment of Richard Alpert as assistant professor of Clinical Psychology and of Education for giving halluginogenic drugs to an undergraduate in violation of an agreement with the University...
...dismissal, the first in Pusey's ten years at Harvard, climaxed more than a year of off-and-on controversey over the work of Alpert and an associate, Timothy Leary, Lecturer on Clinical Psychology, with psilocybin. (Leary was relieved of his teaching duties by the Corporation, and his salary suspended, for absenting himself from the University without permission...
When he announced Alpert's dismissal, President Pusey noted that the University was not against research with the drugs, but objected to Alpert's disregard of a University ruling...
Although he admitted that he did not know if Alpert was guilty of the violation, James said Alpert probably would not have been fired if the University's "attitude" toward the drug research had been more sympathetic...
Some of the students at the meeting said they thought Alpert would have been fired eventually, and that he seemed to be asking for the action. Last summer some undergraduates were in Mexico with Alpert and Timothy Leary in a group experiment with the drugs...