The University of Wisconsin La Crosse has replaced their Porno Producing Chancellor (Trademark pending).
Keene State Provost named chancellor of UW-La Crosse | WPR
James Beeby, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Keene State College in New Hampshire, has been named chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously approved Beeby’s appointment. He will begin his position on July 1, replacing Joe Gow.
Gow was fired in December after it was discovered he and his wife, Carmen Wilson, made and distributed pornographic videos online…
Previously, Beeby served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Southern Indiana. He also spent time as a professor and chair in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University.
Since Gow’s dismissal, Provost Betsy Morgan has served as interim chancellor.
Gow is on paid administrative leave. He was paid $262,719 a year as chancellor. He is earning a $91,915 faculty salary.
From higher ed, where a Porno Producing Chancellor (Trademark pending) can still rake in a huge salary after being fired, to examining K-12 public schools, where districts keep stepping on the gas when it comes to compensating their administrators. None of this compensation is tied to the educational attainment or academic performance of the district students, by the way.
Retirement perks for new Madison schools superintendent on par with big-city districts | Isthmus
The benefits package for Madison’s new superintendent rivals those in larger school districts, including Chicago Public Schools.
According to Joe Gothard’s contract, passed unanimously by the school board Feb. 27, the district will pay $25,000 plus 6.9% of his annual $299,000 salary each year into a 403(b) retirement account, and 6.9% of his salary into his pension through the Wisconsin Retirement System. Together Gothard will receive about $65,000 in retirement benefits in his first year.
Providing supplemental retirement accounts like a 403(b) plan is not unusual, but the deals are getting sweeter, according to a 2022 examination of big-city superintendent contracts by Education Week: “Now some districts are making greater contributions, giving superintendents more control over how the plans are set up, or tying this benefit to longevity” to keep superintendents around longer.
Chicago Public Schools contributes 10% of CEO Pedro Martinez’ $340,000 salary into a supplemental retirement account each year, in addition to his pension plan, according to reporting by Chalkbeat Chicago. Those benefits totaled about $58,000 in Martinez’s first year, in 2022. Madison’s school district has about 25,000 students; Chicago’s has more than 320,000.
Gothard’s current employer, Saint Paul Public Schools, contributes $19,000 per year into a 403(b) account for Gothard, who currently earns $256,000 as superintendent of SPPS.
Partly in reaction to a mild winter and concerns about previous over fishing of certain species, the Department of Natural Resources is out with some new regulations, including new bag limits. Fishing remains a great family endeavor and a source for not only entertainment, but food. Just be aware of the new regulations:
DNR issues new fishing regulations for 2024-25 season | WSAW
Several new regulations and changes to bag limits have been implemented this year. These changes include:
- A new small tournament registration requirement.
- Statewide daily bag limit of three walleye/sauger per day on all inland waters.
- Walleye bag limits for the Great Lakes (including Green Bay) and Wisconsin-Iowa, Wisconsin-Minnesota, and Wisconsin-Michigan boundary waters will remain unchanged, as will limits on any water with a bag limit currently lower than three.
- A person may harvest walleye from two different lakes or rivers with a three-fish daily bag limit as long as they don’t exceed the five-fish total daily bag limit.
- A daily bag limit of 10 panfish in Lake Mendota in Dane County.
- Changing the musky minimum length limit to 50 inches on the Wisconsin River from the Lake DuBay Dam upstream to the first dam in Merrill.
- Creating an urban fishing pond in the Village of Suamico in Brown County.
New bag and length limits have also been enacted for specific waterbodies in Brown, Chippewa, Dane, Dunn, Eau Claire, Iowa, Iron, Lincoln, Manitowoc, Marathon, Marquette, Oconto, Pierce, Polk, Portage, Price, Rusk, Sauk, Sawyer, St. Croix, Taylor, Vilas, Walworth, Waukesha, and Waushara counties.
We end with this horrible news out of Brewers’ Spring Training. A team with as small of a payroll as Milwaukee’s cannot afford to be without both its best starting pitcher and, now, its closer. With Brandon Woodruff already out for the year, this development means it will take either a willingness of ownership to spend some money on a trade or a baseball miracle to keep the team competing for a playoff spot this season
Brewers star closer expected to miss months with stress fractures in back | WEAU
Milwaukee Brewers star closer Devin Williams is expected to be out for an extended amount of time after suffering two stress fractures in his back.
Williams, 29, is expected to miss around three months according to ESPN and MLB insider Jeff Passan…
Passan posted on X that Williams pitched through soreness in September, which returned earlier this spring and will now rehab in hopes of returning by midseason.
Fortunately for fans of America’s pastime, there are a lot of non MLB options across the state too. Teams like the La Crosse Loggers and Lakeshore Chinooks offer a great product at a reasonable price. We will try to remain optimistic about the Brewers, but if things go south we have options. And at least your fall back plan isn’t producing vegan porn, right? Right????
No injured list for us. We’ll be back with more Key Reads tomorrow, regardless of how our backs feel.
