WAYS & MEANS

Any Chance the Night Will Still End on a Slow Song?

By PETER SCHMIDT

Leave the corsages, tuxedos, and taffeta at home. Joseph Gow, the new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, wants people to know that "we're not throwing a prom."

What prompted Mr. Gow's declaration was his decision to keep his inauguration ceremony simple and pay the nondonated...

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