California State University Chancellor Charles B. Reed announced today that he will retire as chancellor of the CSU following a 14-year tenure with the university system.

When Margie Wright was hired on as the third head coach of the Fresno State softball program, she had an itch that her time here would be a success. “There’s magnificent potential present in the Bulldog’s softball program. The community’s support and the athletic department are second to none,” Wright told The Daily Collegian in 1986.

As college students, we have it fairly easy. We spend our days in relative security compared to our post-baccalaureate brethren. It is obviously not accurate to paint with a broad brush — a great many students struggle to pay their own way to school, working one or more jobs to be able to live and learn.