UC Santa Cruz chancellor plunges to her death (created $200K no-show job for lesbian partner)

Mercury News ^ | 6/26/06 | Bartendale

[pabianice]

Denice Dee Denton, chancellor of the University of California-Santa Cruz, apparently jumped to her death Saturday morning from the 44th floor of a San Francisco building where she shared an apartment with her partner... The nationally recognized educator had been in the eye of controversy since she arrived at UC-Santa Cruz less than a year and a half ago. But Denton had been under fire almost since the day she was named to the Santa Cruz post in December 2004 at a salary of $275,000... The UC system did not initially reveal it had also hired Kalonji to a newly created position in the UC Office of the President that paid $192,000 annually, which angered employee unions. Kalonji, also an engineering professor, came with Denton from the University of Washington, where they had worked together...

[xcamel]

ABP:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1655264/posts

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

California has lost its best educator./s

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

What a waste... see what liberalism does to your mind? Prayers for her family.

[JingoJim]

Whoaaa is she ugly.

[Suzy Quzy]

The cutest one too!! /s

[MarkeyD]

There is a difference. The other article says it was the 43rd floor, not 44th.

[Mr. Lucky]

Her life, apparently, wasn't all that "gay" after all.

[Falconspeed]

Good news. I wish more phoney administrators would follow her deadly example.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I have yet to meet one lesbian that is sane. What is scary is the number of lesbians involved in the education system, particularly the mental health services provided to the elementary schools systems.

[Rastus]

Why did they run a picture of Joe Walsh with this story?

[LRS]

There is a difference. The other article says it was the 43rd floor, not 44th.

Maybe it was 44 after she hit...

[MarkeyD]

Her Partner

[dfwgator]

You mean all lesbians don't look like the ones on "The L Word?"

[Suzy Quzy]

Sooooooo, she was the "wife".

[L98Fiero]

"I have yet to meet one lesbian that is sane."

Make that "lesbian" homosexual and I'll agree with you. I've met some nice gay people (on the surface) but they all seem to have a screw loose.

[Rastus]

So *that's* what Cousin Itt looks like when you part his hair.

[Jaysun]

Why did they run a picture of Joe Walsh with this story?

I thought that was a picture of John Denver.

[samadams2000]

Yes but I also want my tax dollars returned.

[Jaysun]

Her Partner

She looks like a Manson family escapee.

[pleikumud]

She looks like Michael Moore.

[Rastus]

Wow.

[dfwgator]

In a related story, there was an earthquake reported in San Francisco, early Saturday morning, registering 3.2 on the Richter Scale.

[Rastus]

I guess it would be cruel to crack a joke about hitting every branch on the way down, but damn.

http://review.ucsc.edu/spring05/images/cover-lg.jpg

[capt. norm]

I she actually Al Franken in drag?

[American Quilter]

Denton had called campus police a few times after protesters camped out on the grounds around her house, said Santa Cruz City Councilman Mike Rotkin, a lecturer at the school. She asked for increased security after someone threw a parking barricade through a picture window at her university home.

How ironic. Liberals who work to tear down society's norms, including good manners and dignified behavior, are always surprised when they become the victims of the very people who have adopted their credos. Liberals always expect to be immune from the consequences of their advocacy.

[stinkerpot65]

I have a cousin who is a counselor in the Houston school district, where she says lesbians dominate the entire system, and especially, as you say, counselling.

[jwalburg]

She had been recently ridiculed by area cartoonists.

I wonder if any of these are still around.

[Enchante]

Sad case..... aside from the obvious corruption with the $190K position for her 'partner' it sounds like most of the pressure on her was coming from the far-left loonies who were harassing her constantly:

"on campus, she had been the target of many protests, students said, with protesters rallying against everything from employee wages on campus to workplace conditions in foreign countries where UC apparel is made. Denton had called campus police a few times after protesters camped out on the grounds around her house, said Santa Cruz City Councilman Mike Rotkin, a lecturer at the school. She asked for increased security after someone threw a parking barricade through a picture window at her university home. ``I don't think she was worried or afraid about a particular person,'' he said, ``but I think she felt personally threatened by it.'' After one recent event in which students surrounded her car and performed a five-minute play in support of workers and students of color, she seemed to grow increasingly fearful, said Josh Sonnenfeld, a student organizer."

[Cicero]

The UC system did not initially reveal it had also hired Kalonji to a newly created position in the UC Office of the President that paid $192,000 annually, which angered employee unions.

So, her REAL crime was to anger the employee unions. She should have squared it with them, and she would have been OK. Certainly Arnold wouldn't have done anything about it, or Bill Lockyer.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Which is the one in drag?!

[Justa]

< heavy Russian accent >

Comrade Denton has succombed to Petit-bourgeois thoughts and weaknesses. She has resigned from her post and relinquished her obligations to The Party.

< /heavy Russian accent >

[Fester Chugabrew]

This news saddens me. I would rather have seen her live to enjoy years of conservative thought testing her mettle (if perchance it could penetrate the city limits). Doesn't matter what the ideologies are, it is not good when people take their own lives. Prayers for her family and friends.

[litehaus]

Albino gators lead a tough life.....

[Enchante]

When I was in an Ivy League graduate program the worst people I ever met were total psycho-witches from the Graduate School of Education who aggressively pushed their militant lesbo-Nazi-feminism down everyone's throat..... two of them went on to prominent positions in the state's Dept. of Education, naturally.

One lesbian I knew then who was not a psycho-witch suprised me by saying that she thought a lot of the worst behavior from very aggressive, very 'out' and activist, promiscuous gays and lesbians was a result of the guilt they felt at their OWN doubts that their behavior was moral and rational. I would not have been the least bit surprised to hear that comment from any conservative, but I was surprised to hear it from an academic lesbian who simply declined (in private only) to support the more egregious words and behaviors of her 'fellow' lesbians and gays........

[dhs12345]

Interesting: she has glasses frames in just about every color -- green, blue, and red.

[robowombat]

You wonder why she did it. There was nothing secret about her sexual preferences. The no show job for her lover would have been a messy business but it wouldn't have likely destroyed her career in fact with a bit of spin management and some public mea culpa at worse it would have dented her standing not ruined it and at best she would have come through with no damage. Why kill yourself? Is this just the piece of the ice berg above the water and there is a lot more about corrupt contracts and peculation of public funds that she feared would emerge?

[billhilly]

Does anyone remember what Donna Shalala's job was before becoming Hillary's choice for Secretary of HHS?

[Rastus]

Does anyone remember what Donna Shalala's job was before becoming Hillary's choice for Secretary of HHS?

I can't remember for sure. It wasn't "sitting there looking pretty," was it?

[capt. norm]

Which is the one in drag?!

Al's pic is the one under "hers".

There are some women that you can look at and immediately know that they are lesbians and can pretty much figure out why they became that way.

Maybe I'm psychic.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

The story is strange, to say the least. Her mom was in the building (how horrible for her!), and the students at the school had protested this particular professor (she had somehow become a target). It sounds like everything she had worked for had come back to haunt her. Such a waste of God-given talent.

Another poster said they wish she had had a year or so of conservative thought as her personal challenge; I wish she had turned to God and accepted His mercy. May He have mercy on her now!

[JustaCowgirl]

My first thought was Mrs Doubtfire, but you're right, Michael Moore is a closer resemblance.

[One_who_hopes_to_know]

There is a difference. The other article says it was the 43rd floor, not 44th.

OK .. OK ... So when the newspaper described the event ... it was the right lesbian ... wrong story.

[Petronski]

She threw herself from a tall building to commit a suicide in well-deserved disgrace.

What the hell is the point of insulting her appearance? What's wrong with you?

[Begin]

It's a man, baby!

[N. Theknow]

Drew Carey with long hair?

That's right, and the points don't matter. Just like celibacy in a homosexual/lesbian relationship.

That's right, and the points don't matter. Just like a jock strap to a lesbian.

That's right and the points don't matter. Just like telling someone to lower the toilet seat in a lesbian household.

[Enchante]

Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1987 to 1993.

http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,8548-1;8823-3,00.html

[Ed Hudgins]

Ironic indeed. She was not PC enough. The extreme left eats its own. On a related issue, I sometimes think the leftists know that Hillary is putting on an act of being more to the center in order to get elected president and that they will overlook that to get her in the White House. But maybe not.

[baltoga]

Job pressure from what I understand.

[newcthem]

Donna "The Sand Crab" Shalala was chancellor at UW Madison before becoming Hillary's favorite flavor.