Dan is a mass communication professor at Boise State University ( BSU). His hobbies are computers, travel and, of course barbershopping. He is a native of Indianapolis, and has lived in Boise since 1986.

Dan thinks he might have written a story about barbershoppers when he was a newspaper reporter in Kansas City in the ‘70s, and International was held there. He thought barbershoppers were "weird" then – maybe a step above the conventioneers who wear fezzes and crowd into miniature automobiles.

Now older and grayer, he still thinks they are weird, but he fits right into their crowd. Except, of course, for their talk about politics during the snack break. As the others in the quartet constantly remind him, he’s an "absent-minded, politics-forged-in-the '60s college professor," and consequently just a tad to the left of the barbershop center.

He’s faculty adviser to The Arbiter (arbiteronline.com), and his students there keep him young.

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