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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Damn Bush and his war for oil!
A brutal suicide is heartbreaking.
For any human to feel this much desperation saddens almost all of us.
Denton's partner, Gretchen Kalonji, is listed as having an apartment in the building.
The Amish again.
I hereby volunteer to take her cushy-ass job at 75% of what they were paying her. Save the state some $$.
My first act as UCSC Chancellor: Summarily expel any student harassing military recruiters.
Thiow woman cost the CA taxpayer over a million dollars in her first year. The schools are underfunded, yea, right.
Good idea!
This woman cost the CA taxpayer over a million dollars in her first year. The schools are underfunded, yea, right.
Seriously: is the person in the pic a man, a woman, or 'formerly-man'?
Do you think anyone will file an insurance claim saying:
There's a Denton my car......
Ditto.
Babylon 5 will never be the same.
Are you sure that isn't Tom Daschle in drag?
This story got pulled earlier - word of warning.
Damn! IT looks an AWFUL like the Colorado professor- Indian NOT.
Doesn't the picture look like she's saying, "Hey, get that microphone away from me. It looks too much like a phallus. Really....I mean it."
CHURCHILL, you idiot!
This wouldn't have happened if the Industrial Revolution hadn't made it easier to make all them tall buildings. How many Americans have to die before we go back to log cabins and teepees?
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