Professor Neil Rudenstein Named New Dean of Students at Princeton

Neil L. Rudenstein, assistant professor of English and non-resident tutor in Adams House, has been appointed Dean of Students at Princeton University. The appointment is effective July 1.

He succeeds William D'O. Lippincott, newly named director of Princeton's National Alumni Association.

Rudenstein called the appointment "a radical change of direction." The switch from teaching to administration "presents a whole new set of problems," he said. "But that's partly why I'm taking the job." His term lasts five years.

His Duties

At Princeton, he will assume the chairmanship of the Faculty Committee on Discipline and th University Council on Athletics. He will oversee all extra-curricular activities, athletics, and matters of conduct and discipline. "The Dean of Students there has no real Harvard parallel," he said. "It's much closer to Dean Glimp's job than Dean Watson's."

Rudenstein will also teach one English course a semester.

"It seems clear that this is a particularly crucial time for American universities," he said. "Students are more interested in politics, in the war, in the various kinds of draft. They're becoming more and more a voice on college campuses."

Involved in Dow

Rudenstein was deeply involved in last October's Dow demonstration. He was credited by many observers for preventing a riot with his words over the loud speaker.

"I basically feel," he said, "that Dow had both beneficial and regrettable aspects."

He explained, "I think we all learned a lot. I think it aroused some important debate over some important issues. But, to be very candid, the quality of the demonstration's leadership was less than one could hope for. And that was better than some colleges got."

A Summa Cum Laude graduate from Princeton in 1956, Rudenstein was elected Phi Beta Kappa and a Rhodes scholar his senior year.