The Strawberry Statement
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The Strawberry Statement is a non-fiction book by James Simon Kunen, written when he was 19, which chronicled his experiences at Columbia University from 1966–1968, particularly the April 1968 protests and takeover of the office of the dean of Columbia by student protesters. The title comes from a speech made by one of the Columbia College deans, in which the dean deprecated student opinions about university administrative decisions as bearing no more importance than if the students had said they liked the taste of strawberries.
A movie, The Strawberry Statement, loosely based on the book, but fictionalized, was made in 1970.
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- Kunen, James Simon. The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary, 1968/69, Brandywine Press, 3d edition (May 1995). ISBN 1881089525
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