Candle in the Wind
Last Saturday, arguably one of the leading academic stalwarts of our times, Denise Dee Denton, committed suicide. She was a faculty at University of Wissconsin, and then the Dean at University of Washington, before joining UC Santa Cruz as its chancellor. We will never know the entire truth behind her decision, but the leading theory is that the support system of academia had failed her. If that is the case of a chancellor of a university, what chance do we grad students have?
