"By simply submitting the completed activity form, you would have been compliant with no further discipline," FAU Vice Provost Diane Alperin wrote in a letter on Tuesday.

OFFICIALLY , ALLEGEDLY , he wasn't fired for saying Sandy Hook was a hoax.

Someone searched for this paperwork excuse to fire him.

He wasn't fired for saying Sandy Hook was a hoax.

'James Tracy, a tenured associate professor of communications at the school in South Florida, was fired for insubordination and circumvention of FAU policies. University officials said Tracy failed for three years to submit a required "Report of Outside Employment or Professional Activity Form.' When he did submit one in mid-December, he did not list his personal blog, Memory Hole, and other associated blogs."

Someone searched for an excuse.

But tenure means that professors have the academic freedom to hold unpopular but potentially correct ideas, not that it's hard to get rid an old man who fucks his graduate students... right? Right?