Australian Ms Greve, who calls herself Jasmuheen, was the focus of criticisms after she gave a talk on her philosophy at Edinburgh University, where Mr Harper is the rector. Verity Linn's body was found in a remote part of Sutherland last year after she apparently starved herself for at least eight days.
Some young people are impressionable.
They want to try new things. I know very little about it, but what I do know, I don't like. He said he did not blame the university for hiring out a room because it had not known about Ms Greve's background when the booking was made and had decided not to cancel because it did not want to impinge on free speech. If they had known more about her they might have thought twice. When Ms Greve arrived in Britain on Wednesday, she said she had survived on less than 300 calories a day for seven years because she absorbed nourishment direct from a creative source.