Moving Stronger: Needs of the Criminal Justice Reform Movement

Moving Stronger: Needs of the Criminal Justice Reform Movement presents the struggles, victories, strengths and challenges of grassroots groups organizing for criminal justice reform across the country. Drawn from a national survey and in-depth interviews with members and clients of these groups, the report offers the insights and analyses of long-time organizers and emerging leaders, in their own words.The project aimed to assess the state of grassroots organizing around a broad spectrum of criminal justice reform issues, with the goal of bringing critical information to funders and grassroots groups about the diverse needs, organizing approaches and campaigns of groups around the country. The report will be distributed and used among grassroots groups to support networking, information and resource sharing, collaborative work and coalition building

Time for Cloud? Design and implementation of a time-based cloud resource management system

The current pay-per-use model adopted by public cloud service providers has influenced the perception on how a cloud should provide its resources to end-users, i.e. on-demand and access to an unlimited amount of resources. However, not all clouds are equal. While such provisioning models work for well-endowed public clouds, they may not always work well in private clouds with limited budget and resources such as research and education clouds. Private clouds also stand to be impacted greatly by issues such as user resource hogging and the misuse of resources for nefarious activities. These problems are usually caused by challenges such as (1) limited physical servers/ budget, (2) growing number of users and (3) the inability to gracefully and automatically relinquish resources from inactive users. Currently, cloud resource management frameworks used for private cloud setups, such as OpenStack and CloudStack, only uses the pay-per-use model as the basis when provisioning resources to users. In this paper, we propose OpenStack Café, a novel methodology adopting the concepts of 'time' and booking systems' to manage resources of private clouds. By allowing users to book resources over specific time-slots, our proposed solution can efficiently and automatically help administrators manage users' access to resource, addressing the issue of resource hogging and gracefully relinquish resources back to the pool in resource-constrained private cloud setups. Work is currently in progress to adopt Café into OpenStack as a feature, and results of our prototype show promises. We also present some insights to lessons learnt during the design and implementation of our proposed methodology in this paper

Wellness Reflection

Until this point to contribute to my wellness, I make an effort but sometimes not as much as I could. I generally go to sleep between 12 and 1, prioritizing my homework earlier in the day. This helps to ensure that I get enough sleep, but sometimes means I don’t get as much done as I had planned to

Class Matters: The Experiences Of Female College Students In A Greek-Letter Organization

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, School of Education, 2009This qualitative study documents the experiences of 15 women from different social class backgrounds who are members of a women's fraternity/sorority at a large, public, institution located in an urban area in the Mid-West. The purpose of the study was to better understand the relationship between social class and the nature and impact of the sorority experience as interpreted by the women themselves. The main research questions were: a) Do the experiences of women participating in self-perpetuating student organizations vary depending on their social class? b) What does social class mean to the students? For example, are traditional markers of class such as high levels of family income, parental education, and appreciation for such aesthetic qualities as fine art and cuisine understood and valued by these women? Or are other indicators such as students' consumption patterns more meaningful? c) Does this self-perpetuating student organization confer social and/or cultural capital to its members? d) Does social class affect what they do and think about themselves and others? Major findings include: the women participants did not consider social class or social status to be a significant factor in terms of the nature or quality of their experiences with this organization or that of other women in the Greek organization. Membership in the organization was found to perpetuate social class standing and social class reproduction, and provide social insulation within the larger campus community. Members also described numerous opportunities to gain social capital through membership while cultural capital was not indicated as a benefit. The women interpreted social class through material goods and could articulate the experiences of upper and upper-middle class students while experiences of other students for lower economic echelons were invisible. Other findings include the following: the chapter was not diverse from an economic standpoint, with less than 10% of the chapter coming from lower middle or middle class backgrounds; participation in the Greek letter organization perpetuates social class; membership insulates the women from other, more diverse students on campus, and that the women are unaware of the privilege they have as members of the upper and upper-middle class. Implications for research and practice are discussed

Oral Presentations: Social Sciences I

Video provided above is of Olivia Maurer\u27s presentation. Video of Kaden Grace\u27s presentation is available here. Video of Ryan Wallace\u27s presentation is available here

Senior Recital: Ryan Valdivia, Trumpet; Grace Eom, Piano; April 14, 2023

Kemp Recital HallApril 14, 2023Friday Evening6:00 p.m