The Q&Q For 1/5/24

We’re back with the Quote and Quiz, a popular regular Friday feature here at YSDA. Well, that’s not entirely accurate, but it does regularly appear on Fridays.

You can’t get enough of Chancellor-Porn Star Joe Gow, can you? Well, neither can we. This week’s quote comes to us from UW Regents Chair Karen Walsh, who in a statement announcing the Regents’ decision to dismiss Gow said:

“The outrage over his behavior is evidenced by the unanimous vote by the UW Board of Regents to terminate him as chancellor. We are alarmed, and disgusted, by his actions, which were wholly and undeniably inconsistent with his role as chancellor.”

1. The Regents were outraged, alarmed and disgusted because Gow and his wife, Carmen Wilson, produced videos that:

A) Involved children.

B) Involved the ritualistic sacrifice of farm animals.

C) Involved Donald Trump.

D) Involved two married consenting adults touting the advantages of being married and consenting.

2. In addition to producing sex videos, Gow led the UW La Crosse campus for nearly 17 years. After his recent firing he left the campus:

A) In deep debt.

B) In need of laying off dozens of teaching staff.

C) In need of eliminating entire departments.

D) As the most financially sound and stable in the system.

3. In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Gow claims that over the last decade or so of producing books and videos, he and Wilson have:

A) Earned over a million dollars.

B) Earned about $100,000.

C) Lost around $80,000.

D) Broke even.

4. Gow and Wilson operated under pseudonyms. Who blew the whistle on them?

A) Gow and Wilson themselves to bring attention to their productions.

B) A disgruntled former UW-L faculty member who had been denied tenure.

C) Karen Walsh who thought the actor looked familiar.

D) Nobody knows.

5. In their expressions of shock and disgust, the Regents most resembled:

A) The Church Lady.

B) The pilgrims.

C) The Ayatollah.

D) All of the above.

6. In her statement, Walsh expressed pride in the unanimous vote to fire Gow and in the moral certainty that seemed to imply. What was Walsh less certain of?

A) Hiring System President Jay Rothman.

B) Hiring Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin.

C) Hiring UW football coach Luke Fickell.

D) Taking $800 million to pay for new buildings, new programs and staff raises in a deal with Speaker Robin Vos.

7. When UW Madison students rallied in support of Hamas, chanting “Glory to the martyrs,” after the terrorist group murdered over a thousand Israelis and took hostages on October 7th, Walsh and the Regents:

A) Issued a statement expressing outrage, alarm and disgust.

B) Said nothing.

8. By taking this strong stand the Regents have:

A) Successfully warned off undergrads from the evils of sexual activity.

B) Changed overnight the UW’s reputation for sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll to one similar to that of Brigham Young.

C) Given Vos and the Republicans the idea of issuing free chastity belts through revised DEI programs.

D) Dramatically boosted the sales of Gow’s books, which nobody had here-to-for been buying and his videos, which no one had been watching.

Answers

1: D

2: D

3: C

4: D

5: D

6: D. Walsh voted against that before she voted for it.

7: B

8: D

That’s it for the first week of the new year, folks. Only 51 more to go. See you on Monday when we can bask in the glow of the Packers’ victory over the Bears and their triumphant return to the playoffs.