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What Happened at Harvard?
Tim Leary and Lirian Alpert got in trouble because of the way they were enrolling graduate students. In an academic world, you're not allowed to say we're really mad at you for having too many graduate students. But it may color your opinion when they also are doing work that freaks you out. So, it was in a sense almost a necessity for Harvard to do something about it. And both of them then became culturally much more visible.