New student center name debate dredges up Brady's past

MU administrators and construction personnel ceremonially break ground at the construction site for the new student center in October 2006. Since construction began, debate has risen over the naming of the new center, specifically whether to keep Brady's namesake after allegations of racist remarks and behaviors made by the former dean.

Thomas Brady poses in his office with a cigar while serving as Dean of Extra-Divisional Administration in 1963. Originally a history professor, Brady held many other leadership and administrative positions at MU between 1926 and 1964.

Thomas Brady works from his office in Jesse Hall in 1962. Brady's legacy at MU began when the Board of Curators decreed in 1966 that the student commons building be renamed Brady Commons.