Honor statement THE Notre Dame Community, We, the members of the Notre Dame Honor Council, after considerable deliberation have decided that we will suspend all of our administrative activities and that all council members will take an indefinite leave of absence until such time as the Notre Dame OBSERVERServing the Notre Dame and St. Mary's College Community community determines the future of the Honor Concept. We have found it necessary to take these actions for several VOL. Ill, No. 79 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1969 reasons. The Honor Council, as it was originally conceived, must reflect the community’s commitment to academic honesty. The current situation makes it apparent to us that the community is no longer committed to this concept. We are convinced that the total number of cases reported represents only a small fraction of theMankiewicz opens seminar actual violations. We are further convinced that, while most year, and then gave the podium not a pivotal point of Senator individuals seem to uphold personal honesty, they do not considerLast night, berore a large audience in the Library to Dean Lawless of the Law Kennedy’s campaign. Mr. the honesty of thers to be their concern. In this context the penalty Auditorium, Frank Mankiewicz, School, a personal friend of theMankiewicz said he believed it system has failed to serve a constructive purpose for the violators. the press secretary of the late Senator, who introduced Mr. was Indiana which was a pivotal We can no longer, in good conscience, continue to levy penaltiesSenator Robert F. Kennedy, Mankiewicz. point for Senator Kennedy, “a only on the few violators that are brought to our attention whileinaugurated a Seminar on state in which he captured the Mankiewicz recollected many other violators are granted impunity. Robert Kennedy’s 1968 -support and respect of rich and We, the forty members of the Honor Council, refuse to accept campaign.any He was first of a longer the burden of enforcing a concept which is ignored by then u m b er of speakers closely student body. Since we have become aware that the Council noaffiliated with Senator Kennedy longer represents the dominant concept of Honor in the communitywho will speak on their relations we have had to make this difficult decision. We now ask the with the late senator and the senator’s campaign. community to carefully consider and to finally decide the fate of the Honor Concept at this University. We, as in the past, will remain Chuck Nau, Student Body dedicated to the original goals of the concept. Vice-President, opened with Respectfully submitted, comments on Senator Kennedy’s The Student Honor Council spring visit to Notre Dame last SLC moves on Dining halls, h Yesterday at 3:00, the permission accorded to all providing the sole formal liaison S tu d e n t Life Council members of the Student Life between the Student Body and subcommittee investigating the Council to attend, provided that the Director of Food Services on events surrounding the recommendations be formulated all matters concerning the Pornography and Censorshiponly by the subcommittee; improvement and efficiency of Conference met in a brief closed the operation of the Dining Halls session. Charles Nau, chairman 3) that any member of the and shall cooperate with the S e n a to r Kennedy's April 4 poor, black and white.” of the committee, read a Student Life Council who Director of Food Services instopover at Notre Dame—his statement of intent to the entire chooses to attend any of said future planning.” speech which was the kick-off of Mankiewicz stressed Senator Council which met at 4:00 in hearings be entitled, so far as his primary run in Indiana and, Kennedy’s hope of “coalescing The Dining Hall Board will the Center for Continuing feasible, to participate in the in fact, of all the primaries the black urban poor and the make monthly reports to the Education. The subcommittee is questioning and discussion.” throughout the nation of whichlo w er middle-class white, a Student Life Council with a composed of Professor James Mr. Kennedy was a part. With coalition which, though not copy of the report going to the Massey, Professor Charles Allen, Dean of Students, Father many of the audience who had easy, went exceptionally well for Student Senate. Rev. Thomas Blantz, C.S.C., James L. Riehle C.S.C., participated, Mr. Mankiewicz Robert Kennedy.” Five student representatives Brother John Scholte, C.S.C.,disqualified himself from remembered Senator Kennedy’s will serve on the Board, and they Nau, and Michael McCauley. participation in any hearings of second visit to Notre Dame on Concerning the future of teh arc to be selected by the Student This committee will meet today discussions due to the fact that a May 6 of last spring and the Democratic Party, Mankiewicz Senate. They will then serve a at 12:30 to discuss procedure number of students participating longest motorcade in politicalsaid that “the Party as it exists term starting November 1st and for its investigation. in the hearings may be brought history which took Senatortoday cannot effectively deal up on disciplinary action by theex tending to the following with the problems facing the The only action taken by thi Kennedy from South Bend University. October 31st. nation, but that because of its Student Life Council last night through Indiana and eventually into Illinois. deliberately vulnerable nature, concerning the Pornography Due to concern over student The members representing the the party is open to reform.” He Conference investigations, was Administration will be interest, SLC members Scott and Mankiewicz spoke highly ofsaid that although Hubert the passage of a proposal by appointed by the President of the Richard Rossie expressed Senator Kennedy’s reception in Humphrey does not hold the Professor Edward Murphy dissatisfaction with the current University. Indiana, which he called “a position needed to bring about dealing with the SLC hearings. The SLC continued in its frequency of meetings. As a microcosm of all that which was change in the Democratic Party, The proposal, listed in three discussion of the Hall Life result of a motion by Rossie, the going on in America in the years “ such in d iv id u a ls as Ted parts, goes as follows: SLC will meet every Monday Report but, due to lack of time, covered only a few pages.leading up to 1968 and which Kennedy, Edmund Muskie and until the Hall Life Report has 1) th a t a sten o g rap h ic was lost with the death of George McGovern are creeping been completely presented and Discussed was the role and transcription (by a court responsibilities of hall rectors.Robert Kennedy.” upon the public scenes and voted upon. responding to their party’s stenographer) be made of the Hopefully, parietal hours and Contrary to current opinion, hearings, access to which shall be Also passed last night was a drinking on campus will be Mankiewicz said, Oregon was need.” accorded to all members of the resolution on the dining halls covered at the next meeting. Student Life Council; presented by Barney Gallagher, Dining Hall subcommittee The meeting adjourned at TMff; “IVe couldn't bar police" 2) that notice of all hearings chairman. The resolution setsud 6:15 and the Council will meet The following is the text of a initiate legal action, stressed that be given to all members of the a Student-Administration Dining again next Monday at 4:00. statement issued yesterday by the members of the University S tu d en t Life Council, with Hall Board “charged with the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, community should be given an President of the University con opportunity to b eco m e cerning the Administration’s acquainted with the facts and Soph yearbook suppposition in regard to the St. make a decision in a calm, Joseph County Prosecutor’sacademic atmosphere. Knorr eleborated by saying that seizure of Andrew Norcn’s film “ These deterring efforts already heavily debt-ridden, It was announced yesterday because of an insufficient num failed, and when an irresponsible Knorr was unable to specify a on Friday. that subscribers to the now- ber of prepaid student sub “On behalf of the University public statement was made late definite date for these refunds. defunct Sophomore Yearbook scriptions, the Supplement was community, I should like to Thursday that state law, in effect Supplement would be reim The original decision to cancel not able to meet the publisher’s thank personally Mr. Philip was to be violated Friday at a bursed in full as soon as the debt the Supplement was reached by minimum contract obligation of Faccenda, Dean William Lawless, certain time and place, it was incurred for operational a joint committee composed of700 copies. Knorr said that and the other members of the evident the University had no expenses is repaid. Sophomore Class Presidentbarely 100 subscriptions were University administration for legal right to bar entry of the John Knorr, the editor-in- Barry Doyle, Vice-President Jim sold. th e ir attempts to prevent prosecutor and his deputies to chief for the' ill-fated SuppleD’Aurora and Editor Knorr last The Supplement itself, a disturbance and maintain a spirit campus. ment, stated in an interview December 8 in a class council chronicle of the ’68-’69 of civility, rationality, and good “The events that followed yesterday that Sophomore classmeeting. Sophomore year, planned towill in the University com were, of course, beyond the con councilmen of the various halls highlight the outstanding munity during the past few trol of the University adminis In regard to the cancellation, would return the Supplement activities of the Class of ’71, troubled days. tration. I am confident the subscription fee of $2.25 to all Knorr commented: “The Supmost notably, The Sophomore“Although it was not possible Student Life Council will study subscribers as soon as possible.p lem en t was cancelled not Literary Festival, Class to avoid disturbance, we should the matter thoroughly and Due to the incurred expenses of because of the heavy class debt, G o v e rn m e n t functions and not forget that Mr. Faccenda objectively and make appro the Supplement, plus the fact but basically due to a lack of Sophomore Social undertakingsand others, in conversations with priate recommendations.” that the Sophomore class ispublic demand and interest.” such as parties and mixers. those who were determined to PAGE 2 THE OBSERVER WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 12. 1969 Chicago students pickett THE WORLD TODAY CHICAGO (UPI) Supporterscall on the demonstrators to end be available before Wednesday, of a dogged sit in at the Univer their occupation immediately. the faculty and the 8,600 sity of Chicago administration A report of a facultymember student body learned Pueblo officer testifies in private building picketed yesterday to committee assigned to Tuesday night. CORONADO, Calif. (UPl)-Chief petty officer James F. Kell says try to spark a class boycott. investigate the case of Mrs. M eanwhile, the university he ordered emergency destruction of secret gear in the USS Pueblo’s Opponents of the sit in, now Marlene Dixon, whose dismissal disciplinary committee held a “spook unit” because the officer over him was “ nervous” and did public hearing for two women in its 13th day, renewed their touched off the sit in, will not not give the order. students involved in the sit in. Kell, 32, Hayward, Calif., whose testimony was delivered in a Unlike earlier public hearings, closed session Monday, said he had no destruction order from his there was no attempt at Rooms for 1—4 Students Student, over 21, badly superior, Lt. Stephen Harris, 31, officer in charge of the research in need of job over this disruption by the protesters. Thesection on the Pueblo. $8.00/wk ./student committee announced no call 233-9940 weekend. Will do anyth Kell told the admirals he tried to have sensitive material thrown decision. private bath 8 pool table ing - ANYTHING - for overboard but he said a porthole he asked Marine Sgt. Robert J. utilities included cash. Call 283-1715. Pickets around the social Hammond to use would not open. He also said that Communications sciences building urged students Technician Peter M. Langenberg was wounded as he stepped through to boycott social science classesa hatch to get rid of secret material. SMC UND in a show of solidarity for the The Navy said Kell emphasized he believed going onto the deck to weary and bedraggled jettison material when North Korean ships attacked the Pueblo occupation troops. would have been suicide and that he could not have sent a man to do Robert Crawford, a Music Organization what would have led to “such death.” spokesman for the group Kell told the court that Harris whom he called “an average 1 Credit pressing the boycott, said he officer-nothing outstanding and nothing bad,’’-was nervous but believed class attendance in the not confused during the capture. Kell also was quoted as saying the UNIVERSITY CHOIR division was down by about 50 burning of classified publications lasted 10-15 minutes and that he percent. felt destruction of equipment in the research spaces went well. WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS The university’s public relations staff said its check Meetings: 7:20 P.M. Wednesdays. Beatle record cover deemed obscene indicated class attendance was Sacristy of Sacred Heart Church about normal. Reporters saw NEWARK, N.J. (UPI) - The sale ot the Beatle record “Two few indications the boycott had Virgins” with a cover displaying front and rear nude photographs of much effect. John Lennon and his girlfriend was banned in New Jersey Monday Students who organized an by a judge who called the cover nothing but a “suggestive naked a ;-pR°Ne 272a 966 anti sit in rally last week spectacle.” ‘ " I .* '- announced results of a drive to Judge Nelson K. Mintz said he based his ruling on the testimony get signers for a petition calling of an Elizabeth, N.J., record dealer who said he refused to show the on the protesters to end their album to 15 teen-aged girls because he felt they were more occupation. interested in seeing Lennon nude than hearing the album. ViLia2 E t-lpi 1st They announced that 2,296 Defendants in the case, Tetragrammaton of California and 52577 US51 N m em b ers of the university Bestway Productions of Mountainside, N.J., had produced a community, including 1,708 psychiatrist last week who testified the photographs showed “calm students, signed the petitions, and innocence and not a look that would appeal to prurient which took no stand on the interests.” issues but said discussions should Teachers, students occupy Sorbonne go ahead “under more normal PARIS (UPI) - Teachers and students occupied an assembly hall conditions.” in the Sorbonne forS'/i hours yesterday and clashed briefly with C 1 & > S * 4 8 They said the signers police early today when they emerged from the building. represented almost 20 percent of The group voted to “occupy” the hall in the ancient university, a the student body. focal point for last spring’s destructive student riots, to protest the An equal opportunity employer recent expulsion of other student demonstrators. They gave up the A occupation early today and walked peacefully outside. Israeli jets bomb Jordanian troops Now, JERUSALEM (UPI) Israeli jet fighters attacked Jordanian troop positions in three separate incidents yesterday, killing four soldiers w let's and wounding six others in one napalm bombing, Jordanian military b o o st spokesmen said. Israeli officials said Jordanian troops attacked an Israeli patrol your with mortar fire south of the Dead Sea, and witnesses reported three other incidents of Jordanian Israeli fighting along the Jordan River CPIQ ceasefire lines yesterday. Except for the bombing casualties mentioned by Jordan, neither side reported losses in the second day of renewed fighting along the Israel-Jordan border. Chicago Pneumatic "Information Quotient." Nixon improves communication gap WASHINGTON (UPI) - In a move to improve communications • Chicago Pneumatic is not based in Chicago. Its headquar with the nation’s young people, President Nixon yesterday named ters are in New York City with sales offices in 26 major cities throughout the U.S. two White House assistants to establish liaison with youth. One is William B. Mullins, 31, of Pittsburgh, who was a special • A 67-year-old Company, CP is listed among the top 500 assistant to Sargent Shriver at the Peace Corps in 1954, and more U.S. Corporations. recently headed the Office of National Affairs of Vista, the • Plants: New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Texas, the antipoverty program’s community volunteer service unit. He is a United Kingdom, the Continent, Australia and Africa. Democrat. • Products: pneumatic and electric power tools; air and gas The other appointee is John L. Campbell, 24, of Waynesboro, Pa., compressors; diesel engines; construction equipment; who was assistant director of the “student coalition” in Nixon’s automatic assembly machines; Jacobs chucks; Allen presidential campaign. screws; precision gauges, thermometers, controls. Through the campaign, Nixon pledged to set up new machinery in • Markets: aviation, aerospace, mining, construction, chemi government to allow young people wider participation in the affairs cal processing, refining, metalworking, automotive. of state. • Formal and OTJ Training for down-to-earth engineer, busi Press secretary Ronald Ziegler said the two new members of the ness and management majors desiring growth, challenge youth office would deal particularly with the communications gap and achievement. between young people and their elders. diam ond dtnfiort (lo Openings exist in our Plants located in UPSTATE NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, CONNECTICUT . . . and in Sales THE ULTIMATE IN DIAMONDS Leftist students want confrontation Offices throughout the U.S. WHOLESALE — SEEN BY APPOINTMEN1 BERLIN (UPI) Leftist West Berlin students yesterday promised This is only half the story. For complete information, pick up litera PHONE 287-1427 ture at Placement Office. We will be on campus: violent demonstrations against the visit Feb. 27 of President Nixon. FEBRUARY 26, 1969 Moscow radio warned of further Communist moves against Western traffic into the city. “We will not be blocked by police,” vowed the leftist dominated CHICAGO PNEUMATIC TOOL COMPANY student parliament of the Free University. The group led riots 6 East 44th Street, NEW YORK, N Y. 10017 against then Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey on his visit April 6, Coming Soon 1967. Based on the The student statement said Nixon “will leave here with another .Julitzer Prize state of mind” than did John F. Kennedy after a triumphal The Observer is published daily during the college semester except winning novel presidential visit oto this outpost deep in Communist territory on vacations by the students of the University of Notre Dame and by Bernard Malmud June 26, 1963. St. Mary's College. Subscriptions may be purchased for $10 from An aide to Nixon said the President would go through with the postage%d,*NoUe Dame, 1^46556™ "' SeC°nd C'a55 visit despite a new blockade of traffic into the city scheduled to the fixer begin Saturday. Metiocoloi WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1969 THE OBSERVER PAGE 3
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AHH T E S FRET NOT MY little CriKKfl^ x k n o w youfT\ SHADES OF RHYME CAPTAIN ELECTRIC the rmuseme/vt CO GAMES HIOUNTR I M QKE POKER B l t k K J A C K RUSSIAN Ro u l e t t e ... ^ r < . >> A A < -A r WEJb 7-IZ * THUR 7 - 1 2 . T R i LA FEB. f2— /7 S r t 7 -/2 £UN 2-12 M o n 7-/2 U P u p a n d a w a y WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1969 THE OBSERVER. PAGE 7 Chris Wolfe College coeds on campus Notre Dame was visited yes able to attend prestigious grad the students are willing to take Don’t hold your breath terday afternoon by three stu uate schools. the responsibility. dents from Bennington College, At Bennington there is no In a short interview after the a small all-girls college in Ver supervision of the students by discussion session, the three mont. The three girls, seniors the administration. In addition, The Honor Council took a leave of absence Monday until it is Bennington girls commented on Carole Bolsey and Christine the administration does not take given “evidence that the average Notre Dame student . . . desires to their impression of Notre Dame. Graham, and junior Becky on the job of aiding in law retain the honor system.” Don’t hold your breath, anybody. They remarked that the students Mitchell are currently on a two- enforcement. A Bennington There’s no real doubt that the vast majority of students are willing seem very cynical and depressed month tour of American collegestudent takes on full respon not to cheat themselves. It is equally clear however that the bast in regard to the school, and that campuses, during which they sibility in her relations with the majority of students are totally unwilling to report anybody else this despair and depression cause hope to visit 22 different Law. who does cheat, even though they sign a statement to the effect that them to aviod the main issues at schools. Their purpose is to find In the dialogue that followed, Notre Dame. In addition, the they will each time they sign a blue book. out what is going on among the the three co-eds acknowleged The first reason is rather simple: cowardice, or more exactly, lack co-eds commented that the students at the colleges they that the system employed at Notre Dame student appears to of moral courage. The disadvantage of reporting a cheater are the visit, and to gather and exchange Bennington might not work at be without a leader. The displeasure of the cheater himself, but more important, the the various ideas they encounter. Notre Dame since Notre Dame is Bennington students said that disapproval of the community as a whole. Such inconvenience or The three pretty co-eds then about fifteen times the size of the coupling of these two factors disadvantage seems to be enough to outweigh the less tangible explained how a Chicago-typeBennington. They also conceded has produced a Notre Dame benefits of “honor.” demonstration could not take that certain academic pursuits, student who does not seem to The really basic questions though are connected with the attitude place at Bennington because the such as science and engineering, of the community as a whole. The parts of the community which do care, even though he is Bennington College students, probably would not fit into depressed, a and who takes no not regard cheating as dishonorable or minimize its baseness on faculty, and administration all Bennington-type system. grounds of the too-great pressure for grades are expected to ignore, responsibility, seeming not to work together to run the school. They said, however, that cer or at least not enforce, this law. Why is it though that people who want any. The students at Bennington have tain problems at Notre Dame, are perfectly willing to admit that cheating is wrong refuse to help a hand in the hiring and firing of such as compulsory philosophy enforce the rules against it? teachers. The students interview and theology courses, and the The fundamental problem is the incorrect attitude of the “Sweetheart, who’s high for prospective teachers and conparental attitude of the admin community toward law and its enforcement. (Stage directions at this stantly comment on and eval istration, could be resolved, just point call for cries of “fascist” in the background.) For most people uate the performance of veteran as they have been resolved at Mardi Gras? Your Raven!!” at Notre Dame law is government requiring or repressing certain teachers. Georgetown and Villanova, if actions, and enforcing it by some particular agency. The morality ofThe courses at Bennington are disobeying the law is determined by the justice of the law itself as also student-oriented. There is determined by the individual, or less elegantly, if you don’t agree an eight-to-one student-faculty Sale Overstock with a law it’s OK to break it: for instance, parietal hours. Theratio which results in small enforcement of the law is essentially the business of a group like the classes. All courses are in sem Posters, Banners, Prints police, or conscientious prefects, rather than the duty of everyinar form and no grades are ever member of the community. Ergo, no one feels a personal duty to aid given. Instead, the teachers in the enforcement of the laws. In fact a person who helps Up to 20 % off comment on and evaluate the enforcement is regarded as either a busybody or a righteous creep. performances of their students. With attitudes like that there just ain’t no way to expect an honorThere are no required courses at Also see our new MINI-POSTERS and Greeting Scfolls system to work. There are other implications, though. Some people Bennington. The students per would like to eliminate prefects and have students enforce rules in sonally tailor their course of the hall. But in that case too it is probable that people will generallystudies to suit their own needs Aquinas Book obey the rules, and generally refuse to enforce them. and desires. A large number of 138 N. Michigan Maybe the most important implication is seen in a more or Benningtonless students are then Shop (seemingly) insignificant point. If it is true that people will not uphold fully the honor system, why do they vote for it? will If they “tolerate dishonesty” in their fellow students, why do they put their WHY NOT SEND THE OBSERVER HOME? Special price for second semester name under the honor code pledge on the front of exam booklets? The answer is that students act out these inconsistencies without TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT NOW! thinking about them. They simply ignore the fact that they say or write one thing, a pledge of honor, and then do another thing. With Enclosed is my check for $5.00 the action of the Honor Council though, they can no longer ignore Please send the OBSERVER to: the inconsistency. Or can they? Don’t hold your breath. 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Carr missed on a drive and the The loss put a cramp in Notredefense which prevented Notre Carr entered the contest at Bernie Copeland and Lee chance was gone. Dame’s run on the NCAA Dame from even approaching6:37 and managed a free throw. Lafayette got the Spartans F inal percentages tell the Tournament, dumping the Irish the basket in the opening It was his first appearance since rolling with an outside-inside story as well as anything else. record to 15-5. moments. Dwight Murphy had the D ec. 30 game against scoring binge at the start of the T h e Spartans improved American University. While he second half. Lafayette, 6’-6” considerably, up to 41%, while was in, the Irish stretched to a c e n te r and leading scorer, ND dropped to 32%. Bob five-point lead. Tom Lick cut canned two flude drives to give Arnzen had perhaps his worst the MSU deficit to three at the the visitors a 42-38 lead at night of the season, hitting only half. ND’s 28-25 advantage was 12:28. Then Copeland swished 4-15. MSU dominated the Sports Parade due partly to Bob Whitmore’stwo long corner set shots and boards 57-45, but committed the game was out of reach 47-40 more turnovers. at 10:57. Whitmore headed the Irish Wrestlers Carr and Whitmore were the with 17 points, the only one in By Milt Richman, UPI columnist leading Irish scorers in the double figures. Murphy and Carr The Irish wrestling squad second half with eight points had nine, and Mike O’Connell suffered their second defeat of apiece. Austin ended up only added seven. Lafayette hit his the season yesterday afternoon 4-14, but gave evidence that he average, 19 points, while the NEW YORK (UPI) — Sugar Ray Robinson was home listening to at the Athletic and Convocation is ready for full-time action on sharp-shooting Copeland had 15. the late news when he heard about it. Center at the hands of Western Saturday. Things didn’t go well with the “Oh my God, he was such a fine fellow,” Robinson said to hisMichigan University. Notre Dame’s poor shootingND frosh either. The Warriors wife, Millie. “ He was one of the finest fellows I ever fought.” The men from Kalamazoo prevented any sort of afrom Marquette eked out a The news item which prompted Sugar Ray’s remark concerned dominated the match as they comeback. The Irish did manage 58-57 victory in a preliminary the death of former welterweight champion Marty Servo. Marty wasdecisioned 7 of 9 events. There to whittle an 11-point margin affair. only 49 but cancer has never been much of a respecter of age. were no pins in the 21-6 MICHIGAN STATE NOTRE DAME Little Marty Servo, born Mario Severino in Schenectady, won 49lathering of Tom Fallon’s PLAYER FG FT RB TP PLAYER FG FT RB TP of his 56 fights as a professional and curiously, the two for which grapplers.he Gibbons 2-6 3-5 4 7 Arnzen 4-15 0-1 11 8 was best remembered—both were losses. The two bright spots in an Copeland 7-14 1-2 10 15 Whitmore 5-10 7-9 7 17 Not so curiously, those two setbacks were at the hands ofotherwise bleak scorecard were Lafayette 7-15 5-5 16 19 Catlett 3-13 0-0 12 6 Robinson—but that’s jumping ahead of the story. registered by Mike Higgins and Ward 3-6 2-3 3 8 Murphy 4-7 1-3 2 9 Servo first began making a name for himself as an amateur. He Bill Hasbrook. Higgins Bograkos 4 13 2-2 1 10 Meehan 1-4 1-1 3 3 won 91 of 95 bouts battling solely for medals and diamo nd beltsdecisioned his opponent in the Stepter A7 0-1 4 8 Carr 4-14 1-1 3 9 0-0 8 2 and it was only natural one of his relatives started thinking of him in 152 lb. class by a score of 3-2. Lick 1-5 O'Connell 1-2 5-9 1 7 Holms 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 terms of a possible professional. Hasbrook beat his man 6-5 in Sinnott 0-0 0-0 0 Gale 0-1 0-0 2 0 Jones 0-3 0-1 2 0 The relative was Lou Ambers, who lived in Herkimer, not far fromthe 177 division. Sizemore 0-1 0-0 1 0 TOTALS 22-68 15-25 45 59 Schenectady. Ambers had been guided to the lightweight title by a This was the second meet that Kirkpatrick 0-0 2-2 0 2 NOTRE DAME STATE canny, chubby manager named A1 Weill so it was only natural also injured co-captain Jim Hansen Binge 0-0 0-0 1 0 FG 32% 41% that Ambers should recommend him to Servo. has missed. To add to their woes TOTALS 28 69 15-20 57 71 FT 60% 75% Weill was a skillful man. In his time he was to steer four different Ken Ryan also missed the meet fighters to world championships. Rocky Marciano was one. Mariowith WMU. This caused a Severino was another although one of the first things Weill did wasconsiderable amount of shuffling in the lineup. This loss pulls the ND record Zip, zip, zip, just like that, 19 year old Marty Servo begandown to 7-2-1 for this season. knocking over opponents as a professional. He was fast, punchedThe next meet will occur this well with both hands and owned the kind of quiet, pleasant weekend when the Irish try to personality boxing fans instinctively liked. He had 45 straight fights get back on the winning track in without a loss before he dropped a 10 round decision to Robinsonthe in Wheaton Invitational at 1941. Sugar Ray beat him again 10 months later. Wheaton, 111. “ Marty Servo was the same type fighter as Carmen Basilio,” says123 lbs.—Gary Hetherington (WM) Teddy Brenner, the Madison Square Garden match maker with the decisioned Tom Ciaccio (ND) remarkable mental catalogingsystem covering all fighters of the past 12-4 130 lbs.—Jim Kolidica (WM) decis 30 years. “There was only one trouble with him. He did most of his ioned Kieth Giron (ND) 10-7 boxing during the depression when there was no money around. He137 lbs.— Rich Bacon (WM) decisioned John Maas (ND) 11-2 never had a TV fight. He was a victim of circumstances.” 145 lbs.—Dan Bufford (WM) decis Following his second defeat by Robinson, Servo enlisted in the ioned Mike Duell (ND) 10-2 152 lbs.—Mike Higgins (ND) decis Coast Guard. He remained in the service until late in 1945 and when ioned Dennis Bufford (WM) 3-2 he came out Weill got him a shot at the welterweight crown worn160 lbs.—Ron Becker (WM) decis then by Freddie Cochrane. ioned Tom Powell (ND) 11-1 167 lbs.—Tom Dyer (WM) decisioned To get the fight, Weill had to guarantee Cochrane $50,000. Servo Greg Abrams (ND) 5-0 flattened Cochrane in four rounds and his purse for winning the title 177 lbs.—Bill Hasbrook (ND) decis ioned Tom lehman (WM) 6-5 came to $36,000. He turned it all over to Cochrane and still owed HEAVY—Mark Yunker (WM) decis the ex-champ $14,000 more. So he actually got nothing for winning ioned Pat Mudron (ND) 5-2 the championship. FINAL SCORE: WM 21 In order to get the additional $14,000 to pay Cochrane, Servo ND 6 agreed to an almost immediate non title bout with Rocky Graziano who, at the time, was tougher, fiercer and meaner than Bonnie and Clyde ever were put together. R iflery Many people felt Servo was making a mistake taking the fight Notre Dame placed second in with Graziano but he was bent on paying off Cochrane. So twoa triangular rifle meet over the months after winning the welterweight title, Servo took on Grazianoweekend. The Irish scored 1203 and was knocked out in two rounds. points out of a possible 1500, For his fight with Graziano, Servo received $38,000 of whichplacing behind Howe’s 1256 and $14,000 went to Cochrane. Still, Servo ended up with his biggest ahead of Culver’s 1165. purse ever, about $18,000. He also ended up with a broken nose. Individual Notre Dame scores Graziano had hit Servo so hard he had broken the bridge of hiswere: Frank Liebner 250; Jim Pratt 245; Tom Ersfeld 244; nose. After examining the damage, doctors told Servo there was Tom a Kearns 240; and Vince piece of bone that could enter his brain if it was hit again. They Roway 224. advised him to quit fighting. Six months after his fight with Graziano, Servo announced his retirement although he still held the welterweight title. Shortly Track thereafter, Robinson won the vacated crown by out pointing Jim and Steve Rycyna, who Tommy Bell. competed on the Notre Dame By now Marty Servo was 27. He still needed money. Nearly a year cross-country team this fall, after his retirement he began thinking maybe he could fight again. returned home to Lock port, Maybe he could even win back the title. New York last weekend for the His first warm up went fine, Servo kayoing his man in two rounds. Lockport Track Club’s Polar Mike O’Connell returned to the Notre Dame line-up last His next warm up was a disaster. Joe DiMartino stiffened him in the Bear Race. The brothers tied for first round at Bridgeport, Conn., and it was to be Marty’s last fight. night after a two-game absence and scored seven points. first place in the meet, held over Not long afterward Weill got Servo a job. As an $85 dollar a week a 3.5 mile course. Each bartender on Broadway. From there he moved on to become an contestant had to predict his automobile salesman and later a foreman in a Colorado Steel Mill. own time before the race. The During recent years three tumors were removed from his lungs and Rycynas won the event by hospital expenses ate into whatever little savings he had put aside. coming in only four seconds off Marty Servo had a wife and three children. He died practically their predictions, five seconds penniless. He was a victim of circumstances. ahead of their nearest oDoonent.