Hesburgh makes the announcement; ND and SMC ‘going separate ways’

Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, December 1, 1971

The University of Notre Dame and St. Mary’s College officially announced yesterday that “it is not possible” to accomplish complete unification at this time.” The joint statement released by Sr. Olivette Whalen, C.S.C., chairman of the SMC Board of Trustees and Edmund A. Stephan, Chairman of the ND trustees cited financial and administrative problems as