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The article focuses on a professor in University of Georgia who used a state law to get colleagues' e-mail messages and other records. Upset after the department voted narrowly against hiring his wife, Alexei Kojevnikov, a historian of science, got hold of records and e-mail messages of his dean, his department chairman, and four of his colleagues. Like most states, Georgia has an open-records law, or "sunshine law," which allows anyone to receive copies of records created by public employees, including faculty members at public universities. The professor has taken advantage of that. He suspects that Robert A. Pratt, chairman of the history department, sabotaged his efforts to get Kojevnikov's wife, Jessica Wang, a job in the department.

Reports that the University of Georgia Bulldogs men's basketball team won its game against the Purdue University Boilermakers in the second round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's 1995-1996 season. Performances of the two teams during the game.

Reports on the ruling of the Georgia Supreme Court regarding the right of the University of Georgia student newspaper to send a reporter to proceedings and to review records of the Student Organization Court. Court ruling on state open-records; Appeal to federal courts; Argument of the lawyers for the student newspaper; Usual cases in student courts.