• Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    According to the article, the board did not publicly reveal why and it’s this guy himself who seems to be spilling the beans. Not sure what my take on the matter is other than it’s quite funny from afar.

  • pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    That’s a weird title since that’s explicitly what he was fired for. It’s not just what he says.

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    @filoria

    It appears Unuversity policy requires faculty to disclose outside activities for which they receive renumeration.

    So it seems he wasn’t fired because he was producing porn, he was fired because he didn’t tell them he was being paid to produce porn.

  • Szymon@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    This guy just got more money than his pension would have given him.

  • ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    I mean if he uploaded it in 240p quality, or rotated sideways, he would totally deserve to be fired.

    Also the title had me thinking he was operating a studio or something. I, too, have been known to produce porn, and I wouldn’t want to work anywhere that had a problem with it.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow said Thursday that the school’s governing board fired him because members were uncomfortable with him and his wife producing and appearing in pornographic videos.

    The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents, which oversees UW-Madison, UW-La Crosse and 11 other regional campuses, voted unanimously during a hastily convened closed meeting Wednesday evening to fire Gow.

    After the vote, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman and regents President Karen Walsh issued statements saying the regents had learned of specific conduct by Gow that subjected the university to “significant reputational harm.” Rothman called Gow’s actions “abhorrent” and Walsh said she was “disgusted.” But neither of them offered any details of the allegations.

    Gow told The Associated Press in a phone interview Thursday morning that regents had discovered that he and his wife, former UW-La Crosse professor Carmen Wilson, had been producing and appearing in pornographic videos.

    But Rothman said Wednesday evening that he planned to file a complaint with UW-L’s interim chancellor, Betsy Morgan, seeking a review of Gow’s tenure.

    Rothman said in an email to the AP on Thursday morning that Gow failed to act as a role model for students, faculty and the community and mistakenly believes the First Amendment equates to a “free pass to say or do anything that he pleases.”


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  • dfc09@lemmy.world
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    Does anyone have links to their videos? News sites never actually post sources :(