In a statement issued last night in response to qustions asked by the CRIMSON, Timothy Leary discounted reports of widespread undergraduate use of psilocybin and similar drugs. "Unfounded rumors about consciousness-expanding drugs have been at fever pitch for the last two years. . .Locally and nationally there seems to be intense interest in consciousness expansion, but little access to the drugs".

However Leary and Alpert did not join Dean Monro in warning undergraduates to steer clear of the drugs. When asked whether he thought Monro's warning was out of place, Leary stated: "We understand Dean Monro's desire to pacify worries about undergraduate activity, but we believe he is ill-informed about the effects of these drugs".

Leary said that he and Alpert were continuing their psilocybin investigations, under medical supervision, with their own independent research association.

"The rumors of the past two years, culminating in the publicity of last Spring, have made it clear that these materials are too powerful and too controversial to be researched in a university setting," the statement said.