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U unintentionally exposed thousands of OU students’ educational records — including social security numbers, financial aid information and grades in records dating to at least 2002 — through lax privacy settings in a campus file-sharing network, violating federal law. The university scrambled to safeguard the files late Tuesday after learning The Daily had discovered the breach last week. The Daily spoke to vice president for admissions and records Matt Hamilton Tuesday afternoon, when he said OU IT was aware of the breach and was working to secure the files. OU press secretary Matt Epting provided the following statement late Tuesday night: “The IT Security team
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DANA BRANHAM • @DANABRANHAM has found no evidence to confirm that there has been a breach by an outside party, and is investigating the scenario that enabled an individual to access the files the individual has claimed to download.” At no point did The Daily suggest there had been an outside breach, but rather that lax security measures allowed email users more access to educational records than should have been allowed. In just 30 of the hundreds of documents made publicly discoverable on Microsoft Office Delve, there were more than 29,000 instances in which students’ private information was made public to users within OU’s email system. Each instance could constitute a violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which gives students control over who can access their educational records. “This isn’t even gray. It’s very clear in FERPA — you’ve got to have signed consent to do
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this or meet one of the exceptions to signed consent,” said FERPA expert LeRoy Rooker when briefed on the scope of the OU breach. “This doesn’t fit either of these.” Rooker headed the Family Policy C o m p l i a n c e O f f i c e i n t h e U. S . Department of Education, the office that administers FERPA, for more than two decades. He said he was certain the files were disclosed unintentionally: no one sets out to violate FERPA. Schools violating the law can have their federal funding pulled, though they’re always given a chance to remedy the situation and avoid the penalty. “I know the people there, from (OU President) David Boren on down — Matt Hamilton, all of them — they’re very FERPAc o n s c i o u s,” R o o k e r s a i d . “Something slipped through the cracks. Somewhere, somebody didn’t know what they were doing or a vendor didn’t educate them.” see BREACH page 7
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Summer has begun in Norman, and it doesn’t h av e t o b e b o r i n g . Fo r those who have classes or are just sticking around, there are lots of places — in town and around OKC — to eat, hang out and have fun.
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WATER PARKS AND THEME PARKS Don’t worry about leaving Oklahoma to get an adrenaline fix . Frontier City offers multiple roller coasters and other thrill rides for visitors. White Water Bay features slides, raft rides and various swimming pools. Daily admission to the parks is $40, and the 2017 Double Park Season Pass is $80. For those who want to stay in
Norman, Andy Alligator’s Fun Park and Water Park has go-kart racing, bumper cars, batting cages and mini bowling with prices ranging per activity.
MUSEUMS Those who want to enjoy the arts during the summer have plenty of museums to choose from in the central Oklahoma area, including two on campus. The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and Sam Noble Natural History Museum are located at OU and are open to the public. Both museums have new exhibitions to see. Other museums to visit are the Norman Historical Museum, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
shopping feel. While everyone has their favorite spots at Campus Corner, take an afternoon and explore all the shops nestled away right next to campus. Main Street in Norman is also a spot for those looking for a variety of shopping options, from record stores to antiques shops to apparel boutiques.
FOOD AND DRINK After a long day of experiencing the culture of Oklahoma, shopping or thr ill s eeking, here are some various eateries with dishes sure to fill an empty s t o m a c h . Tw o p o p u l a r spots close to campus are Diamond Dawgs and The Mont. Diamond Dawgs is known for its specialty hot dogs, but also serves chicken strips, wings and burgers. The Mont has a variety SHOPPING of traditional dishes such There are plenty of plac- a s bu rg e r s, m oz z a re l l a es to shop in the Norman sticks and taco salads. It is and Oklahoma City area. also a famous 21st birthPenn Square Mall and day spot due to its “Sooner the Outlets in Oklahoma Swirl Frozen Sangria City offer a traditional M a r g a r i t a .” I f a l c o h o l
isn’t your thing, Pops in Arcadia, Oklahoma, on Route 66 has more than 700 different kinds of soda and carbonated beverages, many in traditional glass bottles.
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Contrary to what some might believe, central Oklahoma has many places to see and explore. The Oklahoma City National Memorial remembers those who lost their lives in the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995. It also has a museum that serves as an interactive learning opportunity and walks visitors through the day and years after. Animal lovers can visit the Oklahoma City Zoo or the Norman Dis cover y Cove Nature Center and see wildlife. Oklahoma City also features the Myriad Botanical Gardens. Visitors can walk through the gardens, take gardening workshops and take part in various events. Two other landmarks in OKC for those wanting to explore are the Wheeler Ferris Wheel and the Steven Adams spray painted mural. Jadyn Watson-Fisher jwatsonfisher@ou.edu
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HOW OU BECAME “ TITLETOWN” Oklahoma cultivates championship culture
n November of 1986, the Oklahoma football team was on the verge of their 11th Big 8 championship in 14 years. Then, before their championship-clinching game against Colorado, Barry Switzer delivered one of the most famous lines in Oklahoma history: “People don’t know it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.” Over 30 years later, the phrase is now more relevant than ever. Oklahoma recently finished an historic run where it won four national championships in 52 days, and currently has more national championships in the past two years than any other school in the country. Winning that many championships in a such a short amount of time is exceedingly rare in college athletics — some schools are lucky to win one in four years. So how did they do it? Their success is due to coaches, athletes and traditions that have built a winning environment. “Ultimately I think winning creates more winning,” OU men’s golf coach Ryan Hybl said. “Our guys see the gymnastics girls dominate and our gymnastics guys dominate, and they know that our softball team is great and they know that our football team is great, they know our basketball teams are great. Everyone wants to talk about Oklahoma
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as a football school, and we are for sure a football school, but we win in everything. It is awesome to be a part of that right now.”
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WHAT MAKES OKLAHOMA SO SUCCESSFUL? It’s a mentality, a championship mindset, and it starts at the top. “You know, Joe Castiglione is phenomenal. He gives myself — my program — all the resources we need to be competitive and to win,” Hybl said of OU’s athletic director. “No different with every other sport here on campus. We have great coaches all over the place. When I go to my head coaches’ meetings, I look across that room — it’s im-
“When I go to my head coaches’ meetings, I look across that room — it’s impressive to say the least.” RYAN HYBL, OU MENS’ GOLF COACH
pressive to say the least.” Castiglione prides himself on hiring the best of the best, which is why Oklahoma has been so successful. “It’s an incredible environment to be in here as a
student-athlete, as a coach — to have other coaches around you accomplishing such amazing things, it’s very inspiring,” OU women’s gymnastics coach K.J. Kindler said. During his 18 years at Oklahoma, Castiglione has been part of 17 national championships and more than 80 conference championships. He’s been a major component in the Sooners’ championship mentality, hiring four coaches that have combined to claim 13 national titles. But not even Castiglione could imagine the type of run OU would have in a 52-day period.
their competition in regionals and in the Super Six, winning the program’s third national championship. Kindler believes the secret behind not only her success, but also the athletics department, is the athletes themselves. “I can speak for our culture and our gym, and something we pride ourselves on is our incredible work ethic,” Kindler said. “For us in gymnastics, having that work ethic and pushing to be better every single day and being driven, that is what our program is about. If you look across the athletic department, they’re surrounded by athletes that DAY 1: APRIL 15, 2017 — are driven. And so to me, that WOMEN’S GYM drive, that force inside you, that motivation, that comes The women’s gymnastics from within — that makes a team has been dominant the big difference.” past few years, winning three of the last four national titles. DAY 8: APRIL 22, Three-time national coach of 2017 — MEN’S GYM the year Kindler has led the Sooners to nine Big 12 titles, At Oklahoma, men’s seven Super Six appearanc- gymnastics has always es and has coached 93 All- been something the Americans. Kindler has built school has taken pride a dynasty at OU, and that only in. The program has won became more apparent in 11 national titles, and has 2017. maybe the greatest coach The Sooners came into the in gymnastics history in season as defending nation- Mark Williams. He is alal champs, and were the fa- most like the founding favorites to repeat. They eased ther of “Titletown,” winning through the regular season, national championships posting a perfect 33-0 re- (eight) as soon as he arrived cord and winning their sixth at the university. Like the straight Big 12 champion- women’s team, they were ship. They rolled through also heavy favorites to win the
2017 national championship. Oklahoma finished the regular season undefeated for a third consecutive year, holding a 76-meet win streak. The Sooners also won a sixth straight conference title, before they eventually won their third consecutive national championship, becoming just the fourth team in NCAA history to win back-to-back-toback titles. “The expectation here is high,” Williams said of the program. “If you want to come here, we’re going to compete for championships, and we’re going to expect a lot out of you in order to earn the right to be out there. So I’m comfortable that we’ve created a program and atmosphere that generally breeds more success.”
DAY 46: MAY 31, 2017 — MEN’S GOLF While both gymnastics teams were expected to win, the men’s golf team flew under the radar for the majority of the season. Despite coming off an Elite Eight appearance the previous season, many people that doubted they could return, yet alone win a national championship. But not Hybl. In his ninth year as head coach, Hybl has turned a once mid-tier program into a consistent contender. Oklahoma has made the national tournament each of the last five years, becoming only one of five programs to do so. In 2017, the team worked their way through the tournament by qualifying for the NCAA
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The OU men’s golf team celebrates after winning the NCAA division I national title May 31.
championships as a 13 seed, and then fought their way to the national title match. OU then capped their string of upsets by shocking the defending champions from Oregon in a 3-1-1 victory to win the national championship. Hybl knew his team’s potential, and he wasn’t surprised by the result. “Once they got into match play, honestly I felt like our guys — you could see it in their eyes, you could feel it in their hearts and their souls and that they were going to do something really special,” Hybl said. “I’m just proud to be able to be a part of the club now as a national championship coach, because there’s a lot of them here.” DAY 52: JUNE 6, 2017 — SOFTBALL What coach Patty Gasso has done with the softball program has been nothing short of a miracle. Gasso has turned Oklahoma into a softball powerhouse, dominating not only the Big 12, but also the entire country. As much as she hates to admit it, Gasso has started a dynasty in Norman, winning three of the last five national championships. But 2017 may just be her most memorable
season yet. The Sooners started the season as one of the favorites to return to the Women’s College World Series. Come post season, Oklahoma was shocked in the first round of regionals by North Dakota State, forcing them to have to win four straight elimination games. So that’s exactly what they did. They won four straight games to advance to Super Regionals where they swept Auburn, putting them back in the WCWS for the 11th time in program history. Gasso’s team then beat Baylor, Washington and Oregon, setting them up for a championships series with No. 1 Florida. No. 10 Oklahoma finished their season off by sweeping the Gators in two unforgettable games, including a 17-inning thriller. “I think (OU) kind of (lives) in that environment where we feed off of each other,” Gasso said. “Gymnastics started it, then tennis, then golf, and for us to kind of finish it — I don’t think we look at it and go ‘we got to do this,’ but we have confidence and I think that’s what you feel from the team’s at OU, they just play with confidence.”
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The OU softball team flaunts the power of three after beating Florida 5-4 in the second championship gamce to win the 2017 national title June 6.
In the same span, Oklahoma won five individual national championships from five different student-athletes. Sophomore Yul Moldauer won two in men’s gymnastics, freshman Maggie Nichols and s ophomore Nicole Lehrmann each won one in women’s gymnastics, and senior Andrew Harris and junior Spencer Papa won men’s doubles in tennis. At the end of the day, what makes Oklahoma so successful isn’t the rings or the trophies — it’s the drive to be great on and off the field. “We’d love for every student-athlete to walk off the field, the court, the mat, the track, whatever it is — with a championship trophy,” Castiglione said. “But I could tell you and talk all day long about some of the greatest champions who didn’t necessarily win the most medals or have the most hardware to show for it, because they embody or personify what it really does mean to be a champion, and that’s what Sooner Magic is all about.”
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University mourns student’s death OU senior died while abroad in Berlin, Germany LAUREN OWEN
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Daniel Holland was many things to his friends and family: charismatic, wise, caring, inquisitive. The OU student died Sunday while swimming in the Spree River in Berlin, leaving a campus mourning in his wake. Daniel, a native of McKinney, Texas, was involved in various on-campus activities and groups. He was an international studies and constitutional studies senior at OU, as well as a member of the OU College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Scholars. Daniel also interned in the state Senate. The 20-year-old was open-minded, friendly and loved to discuss politics. At the news of Daniel’s death, support poured in from the university community, many of whom were affected by his death. “Our deepest sympathy and prayers are with Daniel Holland’s family and loved ones during this very difficult time,” OU President David Boren said in a statement. OU Honors College Dean David Ray spoke highly of Daniel and the impact he had on the honors college. “Daniel Holland was a great good citizen of the Honors College and an active leader on the executive board of our Informed Citizens Discussion Group,” Ray said. “Daniel was truly a brilliant, articulate, profoundly decent, and deeply
DANIEL HOLLAND idealistic young man, and this tragedy is heart-breaking. All of us in the Honors College who had the privilege of working with Daniel send our deepest sympathy to his family and his many close friends at OU. It is with a heavy heart that we send our thoughts and prayers to his family and also to his wonderful friends who made him laugh and filled his life with joy and passion.” SGA President J.D. Baker met Daniel when they both received the Outstanding Freshman Award, and they had been friends ever since. Baker said Daniel was fun, with a charismatic spirit that was contagious. Baker said that Daniel was inquisitive, with an “intellectual thirst.” He often had conversations with people of different political views than his own to broaden his mind, Baker said. Daniel didn’t always accept popular opinion, instead opting to form his own worldviews. “He knew what he believed,” Baker said in a phone interview. Seyedalireza Sajadian met Daniel in a political science class, and they often talked about world politics. Daniel wouldn’t tell you that you were
wrong to have a certain view on a subject, which made him easy to talk politics with, Sajadian said. Sajadian loved learning from Daniel and listening to his varying views. Dylan Rodolf met Daniel through the Crimson Club and the two studied abroad together through the College of Arts and Sciences earlier this summer. Rodolf said that Daniel was passionately curious — an intellectual with varying interests. “Daniel could talk on just about any subject ranging from international politics to Stanley Kubrick films,” Rodolf said. “He was never complacent with his scope of knowledge, but rather always strived to learn more in an effort to better himself and his peers.” Daniel’s relentless pursuit of knowledge led him to pursue numerous passions. He was a lover of music, movies, history and Wes Anderson movies, as well as a wide variety of literature, Rodolf said. Daniel’s father, Seraphim Holland, said that he and Daniel’s mother were heading to Berlin to retrieve Daniel’s body. “My wife, Christina and I are going to Berlin tomorrow after liturgy,” Seraphim Holland wrote in a Facebook post Monday. “Pray for the repose of the (soul) of my son Daniel, who drowned while swimming in a river in Berlin.” There is currently no information about Daniel’s service. Lauren Owen
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WHAT TYPES OF DOCUMENTS WERE DISCLOSED? The files disclosed in Delve ranged from harmless to potentially illegal, and they were all hiding in plain sight for anyone with an ou.edu email to stumble upon. One click from OU’s webmail page takes you to Delve, where a search bar was the only obstacle in between you and lots of information you shouldn’t have been able to see. For example, four spreadsheets included financial information for students in the freshman classes of 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 201516. The documents included students’ names and OU ID numbers, along with the amounts of money they received in scholarships, grants, loans or waivers. Another series of spreadsheets listed students who had received grades of incomplete during the fall 2014, spring 2015, summer 2015, fall 2015, summer 2016 and fall 2016 semesters. One document listed the names and social security numbers of 30 students, including the names of athletes now playing professionally. It’s not clear why the document existed or how the students were related. Two others listed the visa statuses of more than 500 international students. Several documents included information about current OU athletes’ scholarships and their eligibility statuses, including one that listed which students cannot practice this summer due to failed drug tests, recruiting violations or academic misconduct.
On the more harmless side: a student’s resume, saved in her OneDrive account, a onesheet summarizing FERPA law and a slideshow on “Computer Security.” When The Daily discovered the breach, reporters and editors searched for documents only to determine the scope of the breach: how far back documents dated, how many students’ information was at risk and the circumstances under which these documents seemed to be shared. The Daily will not pursue stories based on any individual documents found. The documents were not shared with other Daily staff members, and they were deleted before publication of the story. WHAT IS DELVE? Delve is a Microsoft Office service that aims to learn about you and the people you work with to show you documents you’re working on, documents that others are working on and popular documents within your network. It aims to be intelligent, showing you information it thinks you’d be interested in. Within OU’s Office 365 system, anyone with an OU email uses Delve, whether they know it or not. It displays files and information stored in other Microsoft Office services like OneDrive and SharePoint. Microsoft’s website reassures users about Delve’s security: “Yes, your documents are safe. Delve never changes any permissions. Only you can see your private documents in Delve.” At OU, Delve is accessible through the Office 365 system, so it works within the ou.edu email system. As of late Tuesday, Delve no longer shows any files at all. During the breach, a user could navigate to different users’ profiles or perform a search to find files, then click to see the file in a browser viewer with the option to download it. A Microsoft representative
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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? For students whose information was improperly disclosed during the breach there’s little recourse. FERPA does not give a student private right of action, FERPA exper and general counsel at Rhode Island School of Design Steven McDonald said. That means a student couldn’t sue OU for disclosing his or her records he said. Students can file a complaint about the way an institution is following FERPA with the Family Policy Compliance Office. The office investigates complaints, and if a violation were found, the office would tell the university what it needed to fix to be compliant with the law. If a university doesn’ comply, it could lose its federa funding. To avoid data breaches, policy counsel for education privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum and FERPA exper Amelia Vance suggests schools regularly audit themselves She said the majority of data breaches — like OU’s — happen due to human error. “There’s a lot of best practices. One that may have been useful here when it had been implemented is making sure there are periodic audits o how information is kept,” Vance said. “You go through the system and make sure this type of disclosure doesn’ happen.” Vance said there’s more confusion in K-12 and higher education about how to ensure data is kept secure as technology changes and advances, but data breaches aren’t unique to the digital age. “It’s not entirely new. It’s fairly new,” Vance said. “Breaches of student information were happening even when we had paper records.” Dana Branham
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