A shame really. She had a PhD in Engineering from MIT, but all her intelligence gave her no widsom.
Posted on 06/25/2006 6:33:46 AM PDT by SkyPilot
SAN FRANCISCO - A University of California chancellor died Saturday in an apparent suicide jump from a 43-story apartment building, authorities said.
Denice Dee Denton, 46, the chancellor of the Santa Cruz campus, apparently jumped from an undisclosed section of the Paramount luxury apartment building around 8 a.m. and landed on a parking garage, police and university officials said.
The Medical Examiner's office and a university spokesman confirmed her death, though the cause was still under investigation.
"Those of us who worked closely with Denice valued her intelligence, humor, and commitment to the ideals of diversity and higher education," UC Santa Cruz Campus Provost David S. Kliger said in a statement. "We are deeply saddened by her death."
Denton recently was criticized for demanding expensive remodeling to her campus home and for helping her partner secure a top-paying university position.
In March, she defended $600,000 worth of renovations to her campus home she demanded during contract negotiations before being hired in 2004.
Campus employees criticized the expenditures as lavish while the university raised fees and cut budgets.
An employee union in 2005 criticized the university's creation of a $192,000-a-year job for Gretchen Kalonji, Denton's longtime partner and a former professor of materials science at the University of Washington in Seattle.
University officials defended the hiring, saying Kalonji's experience would be an asset in her role as director of international strategy development.
A shame really. She had a PhD in Engineering from MIT, but all her intelligence gave her no widsom.
Another indication that liberalism is a mental disease?
I wonder why they didn't mention her being lesbian. The other article had it all over
Maybe but it will be framed as the fault of Bush and so-called homophobes, just watch.
Thanks for posting. I remember the original story (on FR). Condolences to her long time partner, their families and friends.
She obviously used the money on ice cream and potato chips instead of therapy.
My guess is that she got into MIT via the anything-but-brains-diversity pool, perhaps even supplanting a better student who happened to be a straight white male. Nah, that couldn't happen at MIT.
She has no problems any more and is the arms of her loving arms of her Maker.
Why would this lesbian liberal jump from a hotel rather than the Golden Gate Bridge? The bridge was just a couple miles away and would have gotten lot more publicity for her cause---whatever that might have been.
Liberalism is INDEED a mental disorder!
They DID mention her sexual orientation, via her long time PARTNER, Gretchen Kalonji.
Dunno if that is the case, but I bet they blame her suicide on homophobia and society's failure to accept her, rather than a mental instability that might coincidentally have led her to abandon her normal sexual urges in favor of homosexuality.
No....she ate at the "Y" and dined here:
"She has no problems any more and is the arms of her loving arms of her Maker."
Well, yeah - if she had made Jesus her personal Lord and Savior and if her name was written in The Lamb's Book of Life. Do you think it was?
I already see a couple "liberalism is a mental disorder" posts. It seems to me that the real disorder lies in the people who insisted that this very troubled woman would be a great leader for their school. Sadly, the mindset which gave her this job is the dominant one in California today.
Her choice. Now bury her.
No wonder.
UC Santa Cruz was where some protesters chased Army recruiters away a couple of months ago, correct?
That's rough, pretty rough. But the truth is we just don't know God's mercy on this matter as on many. I wouldn't bet on this way out though.
Maybe the strain of the public disclosure after the arrogant response finally became overwhelming.
In the end I won't judge. I'm going to refrain from humor in bad taste.
Good lord, imagine the impact of a 200lb waterballoon from 43floors up.
Sad. Suicide is for cowards.
Yep.
Generally considered the nuttiest campus in the University of California system.
Even ahead of Berkeley.
"She has no problems any more and is the arms of her loving arms of her Maker."
All righty then......
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