October 5, 1982

Psychologist and former drug cult leader Timothy Leary lectured on “futurism” in the Chapel, maintaining that the upcoming baby boomer generation would change the course of the future. In his talk, Leary promoted drug use, maintaining that drugs “enable us to have access to circuits of our brains that have never before been understood.”

Owing to his own extensive drug use, Leary confessed to thinking, “I’m the most intelligent person my age alive today.”

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Leary spoke at the college in March 1968.