Word: mackesey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapers across the nation were carrying deadpan accounts that bore no hint of its whimsical beginnings. Wincing at the story's effect on alumni fund drives and student recruitment programs, Brown officials, with hopes of clearing the air, approved a debate between Thompson and Athletic Director Paul F. Mackesey...
...last week's debate Mackesey said all the right things: that the whole affair had mushroomed out of proportion, that the school's football players get better grades as a whole than the student body at large, that athletics is only a means to an end at Brown...
When Thompson and his opponent, Paul F. Mackesey, athletic director, were ushered to the platform amid booing, hissing, cheering undergraduates, the instructor appeared to be outnumbered by the athletic faction of the campus. But he appealed to the crowd to join "the dialogue," and proceeded in Socratic tones...
...Mackesey used a serious, simple approach, citing the advantages of football and accusing Thompson of "seeking headlines and looking at education with one eye." The intelligentsia in the audience waited its turn, then took over the question period with sedate challenges to the director of athletics. Mackesey handled several of them with terse quips, like "I don't see any football players wearing halos," in answer to a question about the alleged sanctity of Brown football...
Athletic officials, meanwhile, criticized Thompson's lack of knowledge on the subject. Mackesey said that the teacher is only seeking headlines, while McLaughry cited the character and academic records of his players...