CHACE, WILLIAM M. : The university must be a place so devoted to intellectual inquiry that academic freedom is upheld even in the face of extreme economic, social, and political pressures. B3 Sometimes this means we are perceived as contributing to the turbulence. Yet we know that the country has benefited in recent times from robust, uncomfortable, and sometimes harsh debates in the understanding of complex issues, however painful that understanding may be. (William M. Chace, President and Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University as well as Honorary Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University, Born 1938)