UC Santa Cruz chancellor dies in suicide plunge
Cecilia M. Vega, Jaxon VanDerbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
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, has an apartment in the building, property records show.
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.
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/25/MNG91JK4T01.DTL
It's tragic when a nihilistic philosophy is lived out in death! (Ironic too!)
UCSC continues to receive tax dollars while encouraging treason against those who pay their salaries and shouting down those who won them their freedom to shout.
If it were up to me, I'd close down the UCSC campus and lay off the staff - tax money is better spent on things like bridge repair and fence building rather than on creating new generations of seditious traitors.
This incident as well as one at UC Davis where the Chancellor made up a job that had no work to it for a fired black woman who threatened to sue, led the Regents to force all University employees to take an online ethics course. The administrators get caught with their hands in the cookie jar and blame it on a culture of corruption pervasive to the entire University system. Spread the blame. But nothing has changed, it’s still who you know that counts the most.