The department is an unstable and confused mess and a large part of it is due to the high staff turnover. In the time it takes an ordinary student to complete a sociology major the entire staff of the department will have changed with only one or two exceptions.

As a result students get little chance to get to know staff and the continual comings and goings leave students just a little bit dazed and confused as more and more new faces appear and more and more old faces disappear.

Due to understaffing, the staff are over-worked and their lectures generally uninspiring. Those staff encouraging a questioning critical approach in students receive little support from the department. And the one constant factor—the department's head. Professor Robb—appears either to be ignoring these problems or playing a major part in their propagation.