VOICES

“Things will continue. The question is, can they continue as well once she leaves? All I can say is I’m very sad. I think it is a serious blow for the university.”

--UC President Richard C. Atkinson, above

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“I’m really surprised. I finally thought the chancellor had found her place here, and now she’s leaving.”

--Aram Chaparyan, president of the undergraduate Associated Student Government

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“Her wanting to get out of academia is genuine. It was like steering an aircraft carrier, and she’d rather sail a sailboat, I think.”

--Judy Rosener, a professor at UCI’s Graduate School of Management

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“We have two Nobels and we’re in the top 10 public universities since she was here. That’s pretty good.”

--John Clarke, director of computing at UCI’s Graduate School of Management

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“The university really should have looked into the fertility clinic more and had a lot more oversight.”

--Melanie Blum, an attorney in Orange who represented several plaintiffs who alleged the university’s fertility clinic had stolen their embryos

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“I believe she has demonstrated immense ineptness in her job as chancellor. And, that if she’s resigning, the university will be better off for it. And, if this is a decision that has been made for her, it’s a very appropriate decision.”

--Debra Krahel, a former UCI Medical Center administrator who was one of three whistle-blowers in the fertility clinic scandal

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“The community, the campus, students and faculty, were all very much behind her and in strong support of her.”

--UC Regent Meredith J. Khachigian

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“I’m interested to see who’s coming on board as the new chancellor, because each new chancellor brings their own vision and their own ideas of what they would like to see.”

--Irvine Mayor Christina L. Shea, above