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Regents for UW could make a final decision on Joe Gow’s tenure at La Crosse during Friday meeting

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The UW board of regents began a two-day meeting on Thursday, with the second day of the session of great interest to people at UW-La Crosse, especially former chancellor Joe Gow.

The first agenda item for Friday is a discussion of Gow’s future with the La Crosse campus that he headed for 17 years, until last December. Gow was fired as La Crosse’s chancellor, after it was revealed that he and his wife had a hobby of making on-line porn videos.

Joe Gow and his wife, Carmen Wilson, sit at UW-La Crosse hearing June 19, 2024, at the Onalaska OmniCenter to decide on the fired chancellor’s future with the school (PHOTO: Brad Williams)

The board is being asked to fire Gow from the university faculty, following a hearing that happened this summer in Onalaska. A firing recommendation was made after that two-day session in June.

The regents are meeting at the Parkside campus, but open portions of the session will be available over Zoom.

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Regents may also revisit a controversy over a movie star who graduated decades ago from the UW. The meeting agenda includes a discussion about naming a facility at UW-Oshkosh.

A few years ago, Oshkosh removed the name of actor Fredric March from a theater, after it was learned that as a student at Madison, he had belonged to a campus club called the Ku Klux Klan.

Although that club was not associated with the white supremacy group, the school decided the KKK name is too controversial to honor March or anyone who belonged to any group with the Klan name.

A native of Prairie du Chien, Brad graduated from UW - La Crosse and has worked in radio news for more than 30 years, mostly in the La Crosse area. He regularly covers local courts and city and county government. Brad produces the features "Yesterday in La Crosse" and "What's Buried on Brad's Desk." He also writes the website "Triviazoids," which finds odd connections between events that happen on a certain date, and he writes and performs with the local comedy group Heart of La Crosse. Brad been featured on several national TV programs because of his memory skills.

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