Paper Trail

By PIPER FOGG

An angry professor uses a state law to get colleagues' e-mail messages and other records

Text: Examples of e-mail messages acquired by Alexei Kojevnikov

Academics are legendary for their feuds. Petty disagreements, vindictive behavior, personal insults -- most colleges have seen them all. The University of Georgia, where professors in the history department are entangled in what one of them calls a "knock-down,

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E-Mails Are Forever - December 15, 2008
Chairman of English at Johns Hopkins to Move to U. of Illinois at Chicago; U. of Texas at Austin Poised to Hire Senior Historian From Cambridge - February 16, 2001
Your E-Mail Message to a Colleague Could Be Tomorrow's Headline - June 21, 2002
Judge Halts Effort by Bates to Prevent Disclosure of Student E-Mail Messages - April 13, 2001
Saint Xavier U. Suspends Professor for E-Mail Message - December 6, 2002

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