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College…Will it always remain the same? The thesis of this paper is to describe comparatively the reasons why college life has changed and remained the same since 1960. After reading The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary by James Simon Kunen, I have noticed that although forty some years have gone by since the war in Vietnam much of college life is indeed still the same. Students encountered the same problems then that students encounter now, but in a different sense. ... On the other hand, in the sixties, college students also had to worry about the war that has happening all around them. ... When Kunen says, “…If you accept the premise that blacks can be whiter than whites, then the whole color thing becomes quite confusing and maybe everyone will just forget about it,” he makes me see that there was a definite line between the races (Strawberry p. ... Kunen obviously sees that people need to “just forget about it Page 2 (racism).” I believe it was people who had the same opinions as Kunen who led the movements to stop all the nonsense, and make people see that there is no difference in a person’s color. ... “Jim and Jean sang some song about people, and it hit me, really hit me, that we’re all people. ... But man, talk about incredibly unrealistic utopian impossibilities ”(Strawberry p. ... I think not, I believe this statement will one day be true. ... “Back at school I eat in a restaurant full of police…It extols the beauty of rich wood billies, the sheen of handcuffs, the feel of a boot on your face” (Strawberry p. ... When Kunen talks about the letter Laura suggested he write, “Dear Draft Board, There must be some mistake here.