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.
Lol. I knew it was only a matter of time before some posted a picture of that dude.
"Is this a bad time to mention that my Darling Daughter starts at UCSC this fall?"
I hope you don't think I was being too cruel.
But UC Santa Cruz is thought of as a nutty place even at UCLA.
As you are a freeper, you've probably done what you can to immunize your
daughter for a journey through US-SC. Students can go off the rails (or thrive)
anyplace...even the most conservative church-affiliated colleges.
BUT...maybe here's someone to follow: Ben Stein even did a teaching stint at UC-SC,
and ended up at Pepperdine U., the conservative (for the West Coast)
university affiliated with the mainstream Churches of Christ.
Stein even taught an undergraduate class at Pepperdine that one of my cousins took
about 15 years ago and she really liked him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Stein
Not at all!
I've done what I can to immunize her, time will tell if it suffices.
PS: And congrats to your daughter for getting admitted to a UC school...
it ain't easy getting in.
And good luck to her all the way to graduation and beyond.
UCSC is closest...
RIP.
That was part of a theory of one of the docs I used to work with.
Getting emotionally stuck in the pre adolescent years: an age when we generally prefer our own sex.
Living large she died large
Homosexuals have 10 times the suicide rate that normal people have.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Thats unnecessary, the women is dead and at one time we were all somebodies baby.
Where did you find those?
I think there are better, less messy ways to get an abortion
Eco-terrorist Chelsea Dawn Gerlach and her friend.
Here was the picture.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/slideshow/051505aids/aidsvigil06.jpg
Hat tip to stinkerpot65 , I think ?
Heavens to Betsy, I'd consider jumping too...
Ah, well. I'm over it.
Nor did it mention whether or not she was wearing a helmet.
Wow. 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.
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