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UC Santa Cruz chancellor jumps to her death in S.F.
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 6/24/6
| Cecilia M. Vega and Jaxon VanDerbeken
Posted on 06/24/2006 9:16:12 PM PDT by SmithL
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton, apparently despondent over work and personal issues, died Saturday after she jumped from the roof of a 42-story San Francisco apartment building, police said. Denton's partner, Gretchen Kalonji, is listed as having an apartment in the building.
Denton, a well-regarded engineer, had been named this spring in a series of articles examining UC management compensation. She had been criticized for an expensive university-funded renovation on her campus home, and for obtaining a UC administrative job for Kalonji.
Denton, 46, died Saturday morning after jumping from the Paramount at Mission and Third streets, police said. The building is advertised as San Francisco's tallest luxury rental apartment building. A guest at the nearby Argent Hotel called authorities at 8:17 a.m. to report a body on the roof of a parking structure below the apartment building, police said. The medical examiner ruled her death a suicide.
She had been on medical leave from the university since June 15 and was expected to return to work this week, said UC Santa Cruz spokesman Jim Burns.
Denton's mother, Carolyn Mabee, was in the building at the time of her death, police said. She told authorities that her daughter was "very depressed" about her professional and personal life.
In a statement issued Saturday evening, UC President Robert Dynes said Denton's death is "a tremendous loss for the entire University of California family."
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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; julietandjuliet; jumpingtoconclusions; kerryvoter; santacruz; suicide; transgenderedlesbian; uc; ucsantacruz; uschancellor
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To: SmithL
I hope this gives John McCain and Arlen Spector ideas.....
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:31:31 PM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(What is it about "illegal" you don't understand?)
To: SmithL
42 stories, damn thats high.
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:31:44 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
To: SmithL
Wow. What a waste. It was such an attractive person.
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:32:30 PM PDT
by
Migraine
(...diversity is great (until it happens to you)...)
To: SmithL
This thread has been officially hijacked. It is now a contest to see who can read the blue button on her (ahem) chest.
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:35:10 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Refute the Drive-By Media. Sí, Se Puede!)
To: SmithL
Albert Brooks won't be in the movies anymore?
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:35:13 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: Jeff Chandler
"I support women in science"
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:35:54 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: gcruse
"I support women in science"I know you can be more creative than that.
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:36:48 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Refute the Drive-By Media. Sí, Se Puede!)
To: Jeff Chandler
"I Support Women in Science"
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:37:26 PM PDT
by
CFC__VRWC
(AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
To: SmithL
R.I.P.
Personally, I can think of other suicide methods I'd rather use were I so inclined. I don't think I'd like the idea of having those few seconds to think about the ground was coming up at me.
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:38:56 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden deceleration at the end.)
To: Jeff Chandler
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:39:13 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
Comment #31 Removed by Moderator
To: gcruse
"I was a scientist before I became a bad actor..."
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:40:24 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Bad spellers of the world - UNTIE!,)
To: Jeff Chandler; Drango
It is now a contest to see who can read the blue button I couldn't see it well enough to read, but I asssumed it had the same wording as in post #10.
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:41:09 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(The fact that they can't find Hoffa is proof that he never existed.)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:41:12 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
To: Jeff Chandler
It looks like: "I Support *something* *something*"
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:41:21 PM PDT
by
JCEccles
To: Rome2000
This would be around the same height....
400ft Fall
36
posted on
06/24/2006 9:43:49 PM PDT
by
edpc
To: Jeff Chandler
I thought it was obvious. The button plainly says:
I Like Dyke
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:45:07 PM PDT
by
edpc
To: martin_fierro
The graduation 'ceremonies' this year were utterly disgraceful. The campus is close to complete anarchy.
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:45:42 PM PDT
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: ansel12
I agree. Very sad. No matter someone's politics or what they may have done.
Permanent solution to a temporary problem. Sad.
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:46:09 PM PDT
by
BJungNan
To: SmithL
"A guest at the nearby Argent Hotel called authorities at 8:17 a.m. to report a body on the roof of a parking structure below the apartment building, police said."
That parking lot must have looked like a frying pan at a pagan breakfast.
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posted on
06/24/2006 9:46:39 PM PDT
by
familyop
(Essayons)
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