Perhaps they should have seen this coming.
In 2018, after University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow invited onscreen prostitute Nina Hartley to speak on campus for “Free Speech Week,” he lost his raise. Ray Cross, the University of Wisconsin System president at the time, criticized the chancellor for exercising “poor judgment.”
UW System officials have recently learned that Gow was making and distributing pornographic videos with his wife Carmen Wilson and fellow peddlers — including Hartley and a pornographer by the name of Will Pounder.
Gow, 63, is no longer chancellor of UW-La Crosse.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously fired him last week. System President Jay Rothman said Gow has subjected the university to “significant reputational harm.”
Gow asks, what’s the big deal? The disgraced administrator claims a First Amendment right to follow his “passion” in his spare time. Gow argues the regents appear to have violated his due-process rights.
First Amendment experts say Gow is barking up the wrong tree. Critics of the UW System’s unhinged “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) cult assert Wisconsin’s taxpayer-funded higher education system is reaping what it is sowing: systemic depravity.
‘A Scandal Would Ensue’
Gow doesn’t deny his sexual escapades. In fact, he has said he would like the opportunity to explain and defend his “hobby.” The former chancellor and his wife, who served as an unpaid assistant to Gow on campus, pseudonymously published a couple of books detailing their personal kink. But their photos are on the
