Reporters: Rebel with a Sense of Humor

Who am I to write a book? I don't know. I'm just writing it. You're just reading it. Let's not worry about it.

James Simon Kunen is only 20, and the introduction to his new book, The Strawberry Statement (Random House; $4.95), sounds like it. The youthful don't give-a-damnedness is deceptive. Kunen is one of the student radicals who occupied the president's office at Columbia University last spring; his accounts at the time made fascinating reading in the Atlantic and New York magazines. Strawberry Statement covers much of the same ground but goes...

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