Dartmouth at a crossroads

Joe Malchow reports that Dartmouth is losing Professor Allen Stam to the University of Michigan. Joe says, consistent with everything I have heard, that this represents a significant loss, given Professor Stam’s exceptional quality and the intellectual diversity he has provided Dartmouth’s government department.
Joe adds:

[A]cademically, Dartmouth is at a crossroads. Two major seats are empty: the Shakespeare professor and the leading political science professor. How these two spots are filled –

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