The Strawberry Statement

The Strawberry Statement
Author James Simon Kunen
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Random House
Publication date
 1969
Media type Print
OCLC 5595

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.[1]

Explanation of title

The title comes from a statement made by Herbert Deane, a Columbia administrator, who deprecated student opinions about university administrative decisions as having no more importance than if the students had said they liked the taste of strawberries.[2][3]

Deane frequently said that he had been misquoted on the matter. In a 1988 interview with campus radio station WKCR, he insisted that student opinions about university policy did matter to him, but that if they were offered without reasoned explanations, then they meant no more to him than if a majority of students liked strawberries.

Film adaptation

1970 saw a film that was loosely based on the book, but fictionalized.

See also

References

  1. ↑ James Simon Kunen (1995). The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 1-881089-52-5.
  2. ↑ Columbia '68 Timeline Archived June 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Morningside Heights:
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