Sociology.

At a meeting of sosc 101 tutorial reps and staff held late last term, it was decided that student representation would be in the form of an elected representative Sinader Katz, aided by Vars Gavriel, Lynne Hancock and Chris Russell (assistant representatives.) These representatives have been allowed the use of a room at 6 Clermont Tce (opposite No. 10) and will be available for students to come and discuss problems, hassles or anything else concerning the course in general, at the following times.

Lynne	Mondays 10-11
Vass	Tuesdays 11-12
Sinader	Thursdays 11-12
Chris	Fridays 12-1.

Also the tutorial representative is required to attend staff meetings of the department, with full voting and speaking rights. Anyone else interested may attend. The most important outcome of the last meeting, held during the May break, was the decision to split the Department of Sociology and Social Work into two separate departments Department of Sociology and the Department of Social Work. This should be beneficial to the Sociology Department as its staff/student ratio becomes more, and it will be able to get more staff and funds to improve its general functioning, whereas before its funds and staff requirements were considered with the Social Work Department, and it appeared to be better off than it actually was.

Another item of interest was a statistical examination of sosc 101 (1976) pass rates. Only 18% failed the course, including those who dropped out. But of those who passed only 6% got A grades.

— V. Gavriel.