Good evening.  This week I have mainly been focused on the issue of the barber shop and reaching out to students on problems they believe are here at Ohio University.

I met last Friday with Senate Intern Chauncey to discuss some problems he saw here at the university and some ideas he had on making the university and the Athens community better.  This was a very productive meeting with some great ideas that were generated.  Many of these ideas are have been followed up on this whole week and will continue to be followed up on in the coming weeks.

I also met with my intern Brandon last Friday to discuss what he wants to gain out of this experience and my expectations for him.  This was a nice meeting and an informative way to get to know Brandon and for him to get to know me.  I gave him some things to work on and we both decided that we would meet weekly to just follow up and see how everything is going with each other.

Yesterday, I met with Dr. Geiger on the issue of the Barber shop.  This was an informative meeting that really put to rest some untrue rumors about everything that was going on with the idea.  Dr. Geiger informed me that he had been working on the issue for the past year and already has barbers and beauticians who are willing to come down to Athens for 2-3 days a week and cut/style hair.  He said that the problem remains in finding a location that is affordable for the barbers/stylists.  He asked me to ask the students that if anyone has any ideas on a location that is about 250-450 square feet with reasonable pricing to contact me so I can pass the location along to him.  He is very optimistic about getting a barbershop/beauty salon down here and is continuingly working on making it happen.

Lastly I just wanted to remind everyone that the MVP is tomorrow night.  It just happens that the Resource round-up happens to be around the same time of the Intern Inauguration and that the Rap session happens to be during the social.  The resource round up is from 8-9 and the rap session is for 9:15-10:15 so if anyone is still willing to come and dedicate an hour for either one or do both please see me or Tristan after the meeting.

Have a good week and end of report.