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College Leader in Apparent Suicide Jump
Associated Press ^ | 24 June 06 | JORDAN ROBERTSON

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.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: academia; college; diversity; engineers; homosexualagenda; lesbians; santacruz; sucide; suicide; university
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To: SkyPilot

One less FemiNazi. I have read her evil, hateful material over the years. No loss.


101 posted on 06/26/2006 2:50:23 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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To: SkyPilot
What a waste... see what liberalism does to your mind? Prayers for her family.
102 posted on 06/26/2006 2:50:44 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Pray for our President and for our heroes in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world!)
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To: 91B

Nuttier than squirrel shit.


103 posted on 06/26/2006 2:51:47 PM PDT by GreenOgre (mohammed is the false prophet of a false god.)
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To: SkyPilot

Is that Bruce Vilanch?


104 posted on 06/26/2006 2:52:21 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: speakerofthefreep
Why would this lesbian liberal jump from a hotel rather than the Golden Gate Bridge?

Maybe she couldn't swim. ;~))

105 posted on 06/26/2006 2:54:12 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: VOA
I think Det. Columbo would suspect she was pushed.

Maybe, but probably not. She seems to have been preparing for this:

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.

Denton, 46, landed on the roof of the building's parking structure, said San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens. He was unsure if she had left behind a note. The medical examiner's office is investigating the death as a suicide.

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.

Sources said Denton had retreated from the campus in the weeks before her death, canceling appointments and clearing her calendar. She began a short medical leave on June 15, a campus spokesman said.

UC Santa Cruz chancellor plunges to her death

106 posted on 06/26/2006 2:57:12 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Pray for our President and for our heroes in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world!)
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To: Ditto

You said: Maybe she couldn't swim.


Or perhaps she COULD!


107 posted on 06/26/2006 3:07:16 PM PDT by speakerofthefreep
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To: starfish923
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.

I have some involvement in the admissions process at MIT. There is no "anything-but-brains-diversity pool" at the Institute. If this woman had not been qualified to be admitted at MIT (and the qualifications to be admitted at MIT are pretty damn high), her gender would have made no difference.

108 posted on 06/26/2006 3:18:16 PM PDT by RonF
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

I was just spouting with the Det. Columbo speculations.

It sounds like the late chancellor was either tired of campus conflicts or
maybe was afraid of further financial scrutiny of her situation at
UC-Santa Cruz.

But, in my silly made-for-TV movie plot...I still like the idea of
the business/economic professor doing it to save the campus from
financial ruin.
Yeah, I know that's taking license...the California taxpayers know
no limits when paying for goofy stuff at their schools, so that couldn't
be a reason to dispatch a cash-crazy chancellor.


109 posted on 06/26/2006 3:20:14 PM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA
I'm always assume the most positive intent from FReepers. I'm sure you didn't mean anything negative...

Poor lady.

110 posted on 06/26/2006 3:22:19 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Pray for our President and for our heroes in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world!)
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To: csvset
"She might have been unused to dealing with people outside of science and engineering, because she never had to deal with them before."

And this was a "highly qualified" person for chancellorship of a large university??? Whatever. Sounds like not.

111 posted on 06/26/2006 3:29:22 PM PDT by PLK
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To: PeterFinn
She must've been quite a conservative to want to save the taxpayers all that money that would've been spent on the indictment, a trial, and her subsequent incarceration. Impressive.

Thanks for the info. This is the first I have heard about a criminal investigation that was coming her way. It would certainly help explain the suicide (other than she had a lot of other problems and confusion in her life).

What else do you know?

112 posted on 06/26/2006 4:00:40 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: RonF
I have some involvement in the admissions process at MIT. There is no "anything-but-brains-diversity pool" at the Institute. If this woman had not been qualified to be admitted at MIT (and the qualifications to be admitted at MIT are pretty damn high), her gender would have made no difference.

I can believe that. MIT does not play the diversity game as Harvard does.

I have a BS in Aerospace Engineering, and I thought the major was damn tough. The fact that she had three PhDs in Engineering was impressive.

Sadly, she seemed to be lacking in other vital aspects of her life. Namely, a recognition of the Almighty.

113 posted on 06/26/2006 4:04:16 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

Liberalism is a contagious mental disease; practice good mental hygiene.


114 posted on 06/26/2006 4:44:58 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: SkyPilot
The fact that she had three PhDs in Engineering was impressive.

Or obsessive?

In all seriousness, in a field like engineering, wouldn't one PhD be more than enough for anyone?

115 posted on 06/26/2006 6:51:44 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: SkyPilot

Well, I reckon that ole building needed jumping from.


116 posted on 06/26/2006 11:07:49 PM PDT by Waco
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To: null and void
Fwiw, there's this.

A FEELING OF `SIEGE'

117 posted on 07/02/2006 8:05:49 AM PDT by csvset ("It was like the hand of G_d slapping down and smashing everything." ~ JDAM strikes Taliban)
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To: csvset

Thanks.


118 posted on 07/02/2006 8:49:52 AM PDT by null and void (islam: Women and children hardest hit...)
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