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California Chancellor Dies in Jump From Building

SAN FRANCISCO, June 24 (AP) � A chancellor at the University of California died Saturday in a jump from a 43-story apartment building, the authorities said.

The chancellor, Denice Dee Denton, 46, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, apparently jumped from an undisclosed section of the Paramount luxury apartment building around 8 a.m. and landed on a parking garage, the police and university officials said.