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IOWA STATE DAILY
12.06.2018 Vol. 219 No. 074
SARAH HENRY/ IOWA STATE DAILY Junior Michael Jacobson watches to see if he makes his shot during Hilton Madness at Hilton Coliseum on Oct. 12.
Thielen Student Health Center accidentally leaks patient names, appointment dates BY KAITLYN.HOOD @iowastatedaily.com Thielen Student Health Center (TSHC) experienced a data leak where inadvertently disclosed student information could be seen. Erin Baldwin, director of Thielen Student Health Center, said on Nov. 5 the TSHC experienced a breach in their system when a coding error occurred as they put student information into a system to be sent out as patient satisfaction survey. Over the past three years, more than 100,000 patient satisfaction surveys have been sent out, and this is the first major error that has occurred. “Six-hundred out of 100,000 is a small number, but we would rather it be zero,” Baldwin said The error enabled some 600 patients to see “the name of another patient, the date of their appointment, and the provider they would have seen,” Baldwin said. All of the information was kept internal, no sources outside of the patients or the university could see any patient information. The breach was seen within an hour and Baldwin said TSHC “shut down the patient satisfaction survey and [they] were able to recall a large number of the satisfaction surveys so that information was not shared.” She also emphasized that no social security numbers, student ID numbers, diagnoses, medications or clinical information was shared. As a part of their commitment to their patient privacy policy, the health center sent out individual notices to each of the students explaining the error and what happened. “We never want this kind of error to occur,” Baldwin said. To prevent a situation like this from happening again, TSHC is going to change the survey process so there will be a different sorting process for patient data. “When it is put into the survey software... [they] will take off personally identifiable information,” Baldwin said.
CYCLONES PREPPING FOR HEATED SHOWDOWN IN IOWA CITY BY NOAH.ROHLFING @iowastatedaily.com Indelible moments are everywhere in the Iowa-Iowa State rivalry, particularly on the Iowa State side of things since Fred Hoiberg arrived in 2010. From Georges Niang blowing a kiss to the home Iowa crowd in the 2014 contest — drawing the ire of the Carver-Hawkeye fans and cementing his place in Iowa State history — to the 20-point comeback for the Cyclones in 2015 and a loss at Iowa in 2016. This rivalry has had its share of back-and-forth during games, on Twitter and otherwise. Senior point guard Nick Weiler-Babb wasn’t about to tamp down the discourse, either. “I don’t like Iowa,” Weiler-Babb said Tuesday. “I don’t think any of us like Iowa.” With Iowa State’s roster being vastly different than it was in 2017-18, there will be a lot of new faces making
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Graduate students struggle to find accessible child care BY MATTHEW.TIBESAR @iowastatedaily.com Many graduate students at Iowa State face challenges when it comes to getting child care on campus, chief among them include accessibility and affordability. The president of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, Norin Yasin Chaudhry, is working closely with university administrators to try and find a long-term solution. One of those administrators is Julie Graden, the program manager for the Iowa State Child Care and Family Resource Services. “What we hear and heard from the ISU campus climate study was that people have trouble with accessibility and affordability,” Graden said. She also said that it was not a new problem, rather a multigenerational one. She said both students and faculty have trouble finding child care, especially for infants and toddlers. Child care is not a problem unique to Iowa State’s campus either, rather it is an issue facing the Ames community as a whole. “Th e city of Ames has grown so fast, and you can fi nd plenty of places to eat and live, but not so much for child care,” Graden said. Funding is limited for every department at Iowa State and child care is no exception. Graden said giving more money to child care services would certainly help resolve the issues of accessibility and affordability but does not think the solution is that simple. “We all have to be good stewards of our money,” Graden said. “The money comes from the state, it comes from tuition, and so I think the balancing of all budgets is tricky.
COURTESY OF AIRMAN 1ST CLASS AUBREY ROBINSON One obstacle facing the university when it comes to solving the child care problem is finding accurate statistics.
So, the simple answer is to throw more money at it, but the realistic is, ‘Where would it come from?’ How much would we really need to make a difference?’” Graduate students are often on a limited income, and their child care is partially subsidized by the university. Some
graduate students are also eligible for scholarship programs that reduce child care costs. Graden works to try and leverage these benefits to those most in need. However, even with these subsidies, many graduate students still have a hard time finding child care. The typical graduate seeking child care for children under three years old is put on a waitlist for 18 months to three years, and the age of the child is probably the biggest factor in determining whether or not they are admitted, Graden said.The time of year can also be a big factor. One obstacle facing the university when it comes to solving the child care problem is trouble finding accurate statistics. Graden said there is no hard number of graduate students who need child care services. One reason why child care statistics are difficult to determine is due to the sizeable international population of graduate students. Graduate students are given surveys in order to try and find out how many have children and may need child care services, but these methods are not perfect. Th e numbers surrounding graduate student child care needs are estimates as a result. One thing Chaudhry is working on compiling information and statistics on graduate student child care. “Let’s get everybody who is contributing towards child care in a room, look over all the information we have, and compile it together,” Chaudhry said. “They (the university) are working on that right now.” Chaudhry and the university hope to have the information they need by January. A group will then be assembled by Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen to meet and discuss more specific child care solutions.