Denise Denton, Chancellor of UC-Santa Cruz, and the woman who sparked the controversy over Larry Summers' non-PC remarks about women in the top echelon of science, which resulted in his resignation after a no confidence vote by Harvard's humanities faculty, has apparently committed suicide in San Francisco. People close to her say that she was depressed about "events in her personal and professional life." With an income, as a university administrator, of close to $300,000 it's difficult to imagine that she had any serious financial worries. There's not much to say about what motivates someone to suicide, but it is certainly another strange turn in the ongoing saga of academia's capture by an obscure counter-enlightenment creed. Perhaps Armed Liberal has some comments on the role of "bad philosophy"?
Posted by Demosophist at June 26, 2006 11:45 AM