I can't find any non wikipedia source for this news on the web though a friend of mine in the math department at Johns Hopkins University says that his dept chair sent out an email broadcast.
(For the uninitated, Walter Rudin is a distinguished mathematician. He wrote some Analysis texts that have been standard undergrad reading material for decades.)
I never forgot his wonderful book Principles of Mathematical Analysis, which I read from cover to cover as a grad student in the late 70s.