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...experience than people would have in other departments," says Peter J. Kempthorne, head tutor in Statistics. Students "get close to individual attention," agrees Marshall Hyatt, head tutor in Afro-American Studies. "It gives the members of the faculty the chance to get to know the individual," says Gary A. Tubb, chairman of the department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies...
Professors agree that their greater personal contact with students makes for a more relaxed environment. "It's cozier," says Tubb. "We're small and we're friendly," agrees Karin E. Michelson, head tutor in Linguistics...
...many years the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies discouraged undergraduates, according to Tubb, since the concentration was based on "rather intensive courses in Sanskrit" which are "very time-consuming. The department was afraid undergraduates wouldn't have time to do the things all undergraduates should be doing." With the establishment of a "less intensive" option in Indian Studies two years ago as part of "a deliberate effort on the part of the department to attract more concentrators" and "to be more active in undergraduate teaching," the department now has more concentrators than in the 20 previous years together...
Although most say larger enrollments might justify increased funding, faculty do not feel that their departments are given less consideration than larger ones when the university appropriates resources. While "the fact that [Sanskrit is] a small program does make it more difficult to get funding," Tubb says, "the administration has been attentive to the description of our needs that we've given them." Afro-Am's Hyatt agrees that funding is plentiful for his department...
...well-adjusted 14-year-old (Ricky Schroder) tried to talk his despondent father out of suicide. Last week, in CBS's Not My Kid, two parents were shattered to discover that their 15-year-old daughter (Viveka Davis) was a drug abuser. Still to come: a college student (Barry Tubb) will tell his unsuspecting parents that he is homosexual in ABC's Consenting Adult, and a family will grapple with the problem of child molestation in CBS's Kids Don't Tell...