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...snowed, what with his beautiful apartment on Washington Square, his wealthy wife, his catered Thanksgiving and Christmas parties. For academics, it was high living. The deans and administrators were very impressed," says Charles Leslie, an anthropology professor who, while he was at NYU, was vocal in his protests of Buettner-Janusch's conduct...
However, NYU Professor of History and Sociology Norman Cantor, who was dean of the faculty during Buettner-Janusch's chairmanship, maintains that the university was responsive to faculty complaints. "In the spring of 1979 I personally interviewed every member of that department. Only a very small number thought he was abrasive and difficult to get along with. If the majority had opposed him, he would not have been reappointed as chair," he says...
...February 1979, Macris, then a student and research assistant in Buettner-Janusch's lab, became suspicious that drugs were being made and reported his doubts to NYU anthropology professor Clifford Jolly. Over the next few months, Jolly and Macris kept notes on laboratory activites, recorded conversations with Buettner-Janusch, photographed materials and secretly took samples that, when analyzed by the Drug Enforcement Agency, proved to be methaqualone and lysergic acid diethylamide, both illegal...
Apparently the anthropology chairman was planning to sell the drugs and had set up a corporation named Simian Expansions to launder the money. Buettner-Janusch pleaded not guilty in the trial which followed, a large part of his defense resting on character witnesses who testified to his brilliance and untarnished reputation. During the trial his lawyer, Jules Ritholtz, hypothesized that Jolly himself could have planted the samples of LSD and Quaaludes...
Some have called Buettner-Janusch a psychopath; others say he made drugs in his lab for the perfectly legitimate purpose of testing the reactions of lemurs, that he did not deserve a criminal sentence, and that this latest incident of poisoned chocolates is simply evidence of a mind warped by an unfair trial and a harsh prison sentence...