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...Etzioni and his followers, the question is how best to promote responsibility before imposing it. "In the end, free people are going to decide for themselves how to act," says Roger Conner of the American Alliance for Rights & Responsibilities, a bipartisan public-interest group. "How they feel about a duty that may be imposed on them is crucial. Way before something like Norplant is coerced, there has to be serious education and the widespread availability of birth control. If those conditions are met, there is a far greater possibility that both the individual and society will accept imposition. A regime...
Under the corrosive influence of victimology, the principle of individual responsibility for one's own actions, once a vaunted American virtue, seems like a relic. "I have this image," says Roger Conner, executive director of Washington's liberal American Alliance for Rights & Responsibilities, "of human beings as porcupines, with rights as their quills. When the quills are activated, people can't touch each other." That touchiness, Conner adds, "is the visible fruit of the rise of self-absorbed individualism" over the past several decades. "The R word in our language is responsibility, and it has dropped from the policy dialogue...
Some blacks and a lot of whites are concerned that all-black schools amount to debilitating racial isolation. Stan Conner, whose grandchild attends Dumas, concedes, "You don't know whites on a personal basis. You grow up more isolated." Sociologist Coleman believes integrated summer camps could help offset the classroom separation. Students themselves are unconcerned. "We're not prejudiced," shrugs eighth-grader Keith Harris, 12. "White kids are welcome here...
...opinion piece titled "The Myth of `Politically Correct'" [December 11], J.D. Conner does a great disservice to the liberal values which he suggests might be advanced by the person asked whether he or she is "politically correct." It is, as Conner correctly points out, difficult, if not impossible, to find the "tyrants" of political correctness, and most students here at Harvard are commited to an inclusionary atmosphere of discourse...
...week, coed Captain Jim Bowers will sail with Assistant Coach Mike O'Connor to the Snow and Satisfaction Regatta, an invitation-only regatta open to current All-Americas and top alumni from around North America. The three-day competition--which in the past has hosted sailors such as Dennis Conner--will feature high-level sailing in a relaxed atmosphere...