UW-La Crosse’s former porn star chancellor continues to frame the fight over his job as a First Amendment battle.
Joe Gow has a hearing Friday before the UW Board of Regents’ Personnel Matters Review Committee. He is trying to save his job as a tenured professor at La Crosse. He was fired back in December after the university discovered the porn movies that he and his wife made and shared on the internet. UW-La Crosse leaders fired Gow because they say he harmed the university’s reputation. They are offering the same explanation in their attempt to fire him as a professor.
Gow yesterday said in an interview that his case is not about embarrassment, but whether the university can fire him for his ‘free expression.’
