5.5 page 237
The implementation of the revised alcohol policy in
the university community is regrettable at the present
time due to the fact that the administration has not
facilitated sufficient student input, in spite of the fact
that there have been attempts by the people affected
by this policy to make their objections known in
many instances.
EX 5.6 page 241
In an important essay, Melody Graulich notes how
“rigid dichotomizing of sex roles” in most frontier
myths have “often handicapped and confused male as
well as female writers (187),” she wonders if a
“universal mythology” (198) might emerge that is
less confining for both of them. In Bruce Mason,
Wallace Stenger seems to experiment with this idea;
acknowledging the power of Bo’s male fantasies and
Elisa’s ability to teach her son to feel. It is his
strength. On the other hand, Bruce’s brother chet,
who dies young, lost and broken, seems doomed
because he lacked sufficient measure of both
feminine and masculine. He observes that Chet had
“enough of the old man to spoil him, enough of his
mother to soften him, not enough of either to save
him (Big Rock, 521).”
