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Freshman Braxton Miller to make first start
at QB in Saturday’s matchup against Colorado. For the year, Bauserman is 30 of 60 passing for 365 yards and four touchdown passes, though he managed only two completions on 14 attempts for 13 yards in the Buckeyes’ 24-6 loss to Miami. Miller, who is 10 of 16 passing for 152 yards, one touchdown and one interception on the year, will step into the starting job in a manner similar to former OSU signal caller Terrelle Pryor. Nick Durkin, a third-year in health information management, said starting Miller is needed after last week’s game.
PAT BRENNAN Sports editor brennan.164@osu.edu Fans in attendance at Saturday’s Ohio State football game against Colorado at Ohio Stadium might witness the dawn of a new era when freshman quarterback Braxton Miller makes his first start for the
“I think it is the right move,” Durkin said. “The team needs a new direction after the game vs. Miami.” Like Miller, Pryor was called upon to start for the Buckeyes’ in the fourth game of his freshman season. Pryor replaced former OSU quarterback Todd Boeckman. “(The Buckeyes) went 8-1 with Pryor as a starter,” Helwagen said. “And if they could do something like that with Braxton this year, it would be huge.” Despite the fact that OSU is entering Week 4 of its schedule, Miller has only two games worth of experience. Austin Cummings, a third-year in exploration, said a switch of starting quarterbacks for Saturday will be a good thing for the team. “I think this will give him the chance to break out of his shell,” Cummings said. “He hasn’t really gotten that chance yet.” The Buckeyes defeated Toledo 27-22 on Sept. 10, though Miller did not play a single snap in the game. Fickell said the decision not to play Miller was “a gut decision.” “He didn’t get to play that game for whatever reason,” Helwagen said. “If he had three games under his belt … what does (Miller) have to hang his hat on?“ Miller now has until 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, when OSU kicks-off against Colorado, to continue to improve. Saturday’s match-up with the Buffaloes is the Buckeyes’ final non-conference test, and Big Ten opponents Michigan State, Nebraska and Illinois await the Buckeyes in the weeks to follow. Helwagen said that Miller would have to learn OSU’s offense quickly as the Buckeyes prepare for what he estimates is the most crucial portion of its schedule. Still, Helwagen said he believes that the team will still have a chance to win the Leaders Division and advance to the Big Ten conference championship game.
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Scarlet and Gray. First-year OSU head coach Luke Fickell said at a Tuesday press conference that all four Buckeyes’ quarterbacks would compete for playing time at practice this week. Fickell then announced Thursday during his radio show, “The Luke Fickell Call-In Show,” that Miller will make the first start of his collegiate career this weekend. Miller was selected over freshman Taylor Graham and redshirt sophomore Ken Guiton, neither of whom have taken a snap in OSU’s first three games. Miller also bested redshirt senior Joe Bauserman, who started each of the Buckeyes’ first three games. “It’s a ‘give him a shot,’” Fickell said on the radio. “The reality is, it is a big thing. But we need both of them (Miller and Bauserman). The way we handle it is key. “But it’s time to give him a chance.” Jay Minton, Miller’s coach at Wayne High School in Huber Heights, Ohio, told The Lantern that he felt like “a kid on Christmas” when he learned that his former player would start Saturday’s game. By Minton’s estimation, before arriving at OSU, Miller had started every game he’s played since the second game of his freshman season in high school. Minton said he thinks Miller has handled the situation very well at OSU and will do his best for the Buckeyes. “When he gets in the big game ... he’s a different person when he starts,” said Minton, who frequently texts Miller. “He is ultra-competitive and he does such a good job of focusing.” Miller was a highly recruited quarterback out of high school. Rivals. com rated Miller as the No. 2 quarterback in the country. However, Miller’s decision to attend OSU was made very early in the recruiting process. Before ever committing to OSU, Miller had OSU’s ‘Block O’ tattooed to his upper arm. Steve Helwagen, bucknuts.com editor, said that he felt Fickell was forced to change quarterbacks based on Bauserman’s performance. “Bauserman’s play got progressively worse,” Helwagen said. “You start a guy who was 2 of 14 (passing). You wouldn’t see that at any level of football anywhere in the country.”
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Questions abound nearly a year after breach ALLY MAROTTI For the Lantern marotti.5@osu.edu Almost a year after one of the largest security breaches in higher education history, an entire department at Ohio State remains silent, stories don’t line up, a top information technology official has retired and many questions remain unanswered. On Oct. 22, 2010, the university discovered that a server, which fell under the responsibilities of the Office of the Chief Information Officer, had been breached and the identities of about 760,000 people had been jeopardized. On Dec. 15, the university notified current and former faculty, students, applicants and others affiliated with the university that a hacker had accessed the server containing their names, dates of birth, addresses and Social Security numbers. Yet when any IT official was asked about the breach, they referred The Lantern to Jim Lynch, university spokesman. “You really need to call University Communications,” said Catherine Bindewald, communications director for the Office of the Chief Information Officer. As the university’s only voice on the security breach, Lynch supplied The Lantern with several email chains regarding the incident. Documents The Lantern obtained in March through open records requests show that Kathleen Starkoff, the university’s CIO and Steve Romig, associate director of IT security in the CIO’s office, have no email records containing the phrase “data breach” before Dec. 5. However, documents obtained in June through a search that included the terms “data incident,” “data breach,” “hack,” “data hack,” “hacking incident,” “security breach,” “security incident” or “security hack” revealed more. Furthermore, the results of both open records requests were returned the first day of finals week following Winter and Spring quarters, respectively
A tangled web OSU spokesman Jim Lynch said this “exposure” and the security breach that OSU said occurred on Oct. 22 were unrelated. Oct. 14, 2010 – Charles Morrow-Jones, director of IT security, informs some of his coworkers of a “potential data exposure.”
Oct. 22, 2010 – The university discovered a server, which fell under the responsibilities of the Office of the Chief Information Officer, had been breached and the identities of about 760,000 people had been jeopardized.
Oct. 20, 2010 – The committee met to discuss the Oct. 14 incident.
Dec. 15, 2010 – The university notified current and former faculty, students, applicants and others affiliated with the university that a hacker had accessed the server containing their names, dates of birth, addresses and Social Security numbers.
Dec. 8, 2010 – No police report had been filed about the breach. OSU police chief Paul Denton, who spoke on behalf of Lt. Rick Green, said the report wasn’t immediately filed because it took time to determine the severity of the breach.
June 30, 2011 – Charles MorrowJones retired from OSU.
Aug. 2, 2011 – Lynch tells The Lantern to contact Charles Morrow-Jones for information on what was discussed at the Oct. 20 meeting.
source: reporting CHRIS POCHE / Design editor
— the day the quarter’s last print edition of The Lantern had been published. In an email chain included in the documents Lynch provided, Charles Morrow-Jones, director of IT security, informs some of his coworkers of a “potential data exposure” on Oct. 14. The committee then met Oct. 20 to discuss the matter. When asked if this “exposure” and the security breach that OSU said happened Oct. 22 were the same, Lynch said the two were unrelated. “Chuck Morrow Jones could tell you what the Oct. 20 meeting entailed (I just can’t remember … perhaps a stolen laptop),” Lynch said in an Aug. 2 email. The Lantern tried to call Morrow-Jones the last week of August after emails had gone unreturned for almost a month, but he had retired June 30. Susan Hatfield, administrative assistant for the Office of the CIO, said there is an interim director of IT security and they hope to have someone
permanent soon. Hatfield said she did not know what happened during the Oct. 20 meeting. “I was told that Jim Lynch would have all the information you would need,” Hatfield said. Morrow-Jones is still listed as the director of IT security on the Office of the CIO website. No interim director is listed on the site. Lynch did not respond to multiple Lantern emails asking for the name of the interim director of IT security. When contacted this week by The Lantern, Lynch replied in an email, “I don’t recall ever referring Ally (then-Lantern campus editor) to Chuck Morrow Jones.” In a Dec. 7 email, Bindewald, the communications director for the CIO’s office, asked her colleagues if the incident had been reported to law enforcement. “Yes, in the sense that Lt. (Rick) Green is a regular member of the data incident response team and attended the meeting we had to initially discuss it,”
Romig replied. In the documents, Romig confirmed that as of Dec. 8, a police report about the breach had not been filed. Lynch referred The Lantern to Green as to why it took more than a month to file a police report. “Lt. Rick Green attends most of the data committee meetings (it’s a broad-based committee.)” Lynch said in an Aug. 2 email. “My hunch is that after the university discovered the incident it took a significant amount of time to determine what data was on the computer and whether or not that data was compromised.” But in December, Green did not know about the meeting. “Is this the meeting I left early?” Green asked in a response to Romig’s Dec. 7 email. “If so I was not
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