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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: RoadTest

Book of lambchops, perhaps.


21 posted on 06/25/2006 6:52:34 AM PDT by starfish923 ( Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
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To: SkyPilot
She had a PhD in Engineering from MIT, but all her intelligence gave her no widsom.

I've never subscribed to the belief that intelligence is necessary in order to achieve wisdom.

22 posted on 06/25/2006 6:53:09 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: 91B

Yes - same campus.


23 posted on 06/25/2006 6:53:57 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Jump?
I think Det. Columbo would suspect she was pushed.
First suspects? Her "longtime partner" who wanted to get "a new model"
now that she's got a cushy job at the school.

Or an prof. from the business school who made sure the chancellor
ran out of time before she could bankrupt the whole university.


24 posted on 06/25/2006 6:54:54 AM PDT by VOA
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To: finnman69
Good lord, imagine the impact of a 200lb waterballoon from 43floors up.
You are my kinda guy. Harhar.

Sad. Suicide is for cowards.
It sure is. Johann Wolfgang von Göethe had a saying:
Wealth lost, much lost; honor lost, much lost; courage lost, all lost.

25 posted on 06/25/2006 6:56:25 AM PDT by starfish923 ( Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
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To: 91B

Oh, did I mention that the banana slug is the school mascot?


26 posted on 06/25/2006 6:57:43 AM PDT by VOA
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To: starfish923

RECOGNITION: Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, May 2004; five awards for teaching; National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1987.


27 posted on 06/25/2006 6:58:36 AM PDT by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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To: VOA; 91B
Generally considered the nuttiest campus in the University of California system. Even ahead of Berkeley.

U.C. Santa Cruz's official school mascot is the banana slug. Figures, doesn't it?

They also have NO grades in their evaluating system.

28 posted on 06/25/2006 6:59:19 AM PDT by starfish923 ( Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
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To: SkyPilot

How sad.


29 posted on 06/25/2006 6:59:33 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Wallow in poverty, you whining gerbil! They're taking everyone's money!" ~dljordan)
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To: VOA
Generally considered the nuttiest campus in the University of California system.

They each have their own special kind of nuttiness. Berkeley globo-communist lawyers, Santa Cruz lesbian earth mother goddess, Riverside La Raza, UCLA Chinese, Davis sustainable suburbia... It's ALL weird.

30 posted on 06/25/2006 7:01:13 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: SkyPilot

As a former archaeologist, I can state that some of the most brilliant people I ever worked with, were also some of the most mentally unstable.


31 posted on 06/25/2006 7:01:49 AM PDT by XRdsRev (The Democrat Party - Keeping Black folks on the "Plantation" since 1790)
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To: romanesq
In the end I won't judge. I'm going to refrain from humor in bad taste.

Bad taste? That's what her "partner" said.

 Vomit Into The Toilet

32 posted on 06/25/2006 7:02:27 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: Cagey

#14 is that Gretchen Kalongji pictured with her?

If it is I would have jumped too.


33 posted on 06/25/2006 7:02:45 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: VOA
Nuttier than Berkeley?!?

Whoa.

34 posted on 06/25/2006 7:03:17 AM PDT by 91B (God made man, Sam Colt made men equal)
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To: 91B
Yes it was, and Michelle Malkin did a wonderful job covering that incident. Of course, she had to go into hiding with her family after the death threats. Some of the Lefties e mail that she received would make your hair curl.

I really don't care about this Leftist Lesbian Academic. I wish people would focus on that house (the renovations cost 600K) or the nepotism job for her lesbian pal. I wish someone would follow the money and the idiot thinking of the people who put her in the top job at a major university.
That Ph.D from MIT doesn't trump a header out a 44 story window. She was obviously a sick woman.

Gov. NcGreevy gave his criminal boyfriend a big job, and so did this woman. Of course it's not about deviant sex relationships. Of course.
35 posted on 06/25/2006 7:03:19 AM PDT by ishabibble
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To: MilspecRob
RECOGNITION: Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, May 2004; five awards for teaching; National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1987.

In the Ivory Towers there is TREMENDOUS pressure to publish or perish, as the saying goes. Perhaps the apex of her career was behind her (as was the bulk ...oh never mind) and the pressure was too much.

Perhaps she was OUT of the teaching aspect that she did well and PeterPrincipled up to total inadequacy. I bet her "long time" lesbian partner knows why ... but won't tell.

36 posted on 06/25/2006 7:03:53 AM PDT by starfish923 ( Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
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To: Paloma_55

I do think that being gay is a mental disorder. My nephew is gay. It is like he never developed emotionally past about age 12.


37 posted on 06/25/2006 7:04:12 AM PDT by buffyt (America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. Pres. George Bush)
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To: USS Alaska

Oh behaveeeee. I'm trying to be good and you're making me laugh.


38 posted on 06/25/2006 7:06:14 AM PDT by romanesq (.)
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To: VOA
Her partner was out of town. Her mother, fwiw, was in the building at the time. I'm not suggesting her mother is a suspect.

San Francisco is in the midst of (Gay )Pride Week or some such rot. I'll surmise that the lady realized that she wasn't " gay " , ( as in happy, carefree ) at all.

39 posted on 06/25/2006 7:06:26 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: BunnySlippers
I wonder why they didn't mention her being lesbian.

For the same reason it's never mentioned that other folks are heterosexuals -- it isn't necessarily relevant.

40 posted on 06/25/2006 7:06:49 AM PDT by Junior (Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
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