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“We promoted it extensively on campus, on our digital signs, and we felt that was the best way to do it,” Chancellor Joe Gow said Thursday. “There was concern, because it’s a controversial topic, that people would send this far and wide, and we’d get people who aren’t going to come, and they sensationalize it.”
“Nina Hartley was someone who emerged as we were going onto websites and assessing people who could speak on the topic,” said Gow, who made the decision to reach out to Hartley. “There’s no one like her in terms of her background as a performer and educator, and her role as an activist.
“I think the world would be a better place if we were more open about human sexuality … and how it plays a healthy role in people’s lives,” he added. “That’s what she’s doing.”
Gow noted that, during a lunch with Hartley and a group of students and faculty on Thursday, he did receive some blowback for the booking.
“Some students did not think porn and adult entertainment are good things,” he said.
According to Gow, Hartley was paid $5,000 for her appearance — much less than the $75,000 or $80,000 some other sex educators demand, he said.
Her pay was taken from the university’s auxiliary fund, which consists of student fees and interest.