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In response to the leaves this year, thedepartment brought in five outside instructors tofill in some of the gaps.
"We'll do better in attracting the top Americangraduate students when we have more people,"Skocpol says, adding that admissions to thedepartment's graduate program are stillcompetitive.
As students become more familiar with thedepartment over the course of their undergraduatecareers, some say their admiration lessens.
"Stanford has been trying to make big raids,"says Roderick MacFarquhar, Williams professor ofhistory and political science and chair of thedepartment. "We have to guard against those sortsof moves."
More importantly, several searches for juniorFaculty members were authorized, and thedepartment hired two new junior professors fornext year.