Tenure got your hands tied? What’s a good school to do when one of its professors turns out to be moonlighting as a sex-tourism promoter? Nothing, apparently.

My esteemed NRO colleague John J. Miller alerted me to a story over at the Washington Post about a member of the faculty at California State University, Northridge, who operates a sex-tourism website.

Through his website, Kenneth Ng, a professor of economics, offers advice to the public on where to meet prostitutes in Thailand, and how to negotiate a good price for their services.

The Provost’s response? “Until we find representative evidence that it infringes upon the work he does at the university itself, there’s not much we can do about it.”

You see, Mr. Ng has tenure. So it’s very hard to fire him.

Speaking from experience, I think Professor Ng would fit right in at Yale. With any luck, Yale will hire Mr. Ng, and this embarrassing problem will go away without CSU Northridge having to do anything about it.