Anyone who has been on the hike to cross has done two things. They’ve posted a photo of their hiking experience on social media, and also wondered who's living in the canyons below the hill. Many students are aware of the security issues the campus has run into regarding the homeless in the canyons, but few people know the stories of the people in the dusty ditches. The Meandering Mustang sent a reporter to the canyons to find the truth about these individuals. We met an individual named Hobo Joe. This is his story.
Hobo Joe talked with us while sitting on his home depot bucket smoking some mystery meat over a sizzling pile of brush. “Oh yeah feller, I been livin here for years. Heck, I been here longer than some of yer faculty. Ya learn to become almost invisible; I sneak onta campus every day and nobody notices.”
Asked about his hygiene habits, Hobo Joe said he sneaks into CDUB every other week at three in the morning and uses their showers. Speaking about his diet, Hobo Joe said, “I just eat da caf food, right out of the back dumpster. The food ain't that great by mah standards; I reckon I mainly eat that there pizza.”
When asked about what he does to entertain himself, Hobo Joe took us inside his cardboard fort. Inside he had wired up a full home entertainment set up, equipped with Wifi, a Nintendo Switch, and a PS4. Asked about where he got the electronics, Hobo Joe quickly changed the subject.
“I don’t like the word homeless,” said Hobo Joe. “Masters is my home. Ya might say I’m a student here just like the rest of them. I sneak into the library way late at night and read them books. I even go to events! Ya can find me under the bleachers.” After stating this, Hobo Joe saw a small squirrel and leaped after it, screaming something about Vietnam.
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