UC Santa Cruz chancellor jumps to her death in S.F.

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 6/24/6 | Cecilia M. Vega and Jaxon VanDerbeken

[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."

[isthisnickcool]

I hope this gives John McCain and Arlen Spector ideas.....

[Rome2000]

42 stories, damn thats high.

[Migraine]

Wow. What a waste. It was such an attractive person.

[Jeff Chandler]

This thread has been officially hijacked. It is now a contest to see who can read the blue button on her (ahem) chest.

[gcruse]

Albert Brooks won't be in the movies anymore?

[gcruse]

"I support women in science"

[Jeff Chandler]

"I support women in science"

I know you can be more creative than that.

[CFC__VRWC]

"I Support Women in Science"

[RichInOC]

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.

[Drango]

You are what you eat.

[MrEdd]

"I was a scientist before I became a bad actor..."

[SmithL]

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.

[onyx]

There ya go.

[JCEccles]

It looks like: "I Support *something* *something*"

[edpc]

This would be around the same height....

400ft Fall

[edpc]

I thought it was obvious. The button plainly says:

I Like Dyke

[hedgetrimmer]

The graduation 'ceremonies' this year were utterly disgraceful. The campus is close to complete anarchy.

[BJungNan]

I agree. Very sad. No matter someone's politics or what they may have done.

Permanent solution to a temporary problem. Sad.

[familyop]

"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.