Thursday, February 7, 2008

Dealing With BYU's Homeless

almost everyday i see homeless people on campus. they usually reside in the jfsb. on more than one occasion i have been walking down the stairs to get to my 8:00 poli sci class only to find the stairwell blocked by a sleeping homeless person. she looked well dressed and she had a backpack, but for all i knew she was homeless. who else sleeps in the middle of where everyone walks around. as i got to the basement i saw the hallways littered with homeless people, mostly girls, sprawled out, covering themselves in their homeless abercrombie and fitch jackets, probably dreaming of finding 3 quarters so they could buy something from the vending machines. (the jfsb might have the best on campus, by the way... its a toss up between the hfac and the jfsb) anyhow they arent only in the jfsb either. try walking through the benson building and you'll see hordes of homeless sleeping under the little displays about president benson, nestled into their little alcove clutching their homeless person biology book. pretty disturbing if you ask me, all these homeless people sleeping all over the campus of the Lords university. and today i saw something so sad i almost cried. a homeless guy had made a ball of snow and was eating it between the swkt and the science center.... i just felt for the guy, he had sunk so low he had to eat snow off the ground (probably where he would be sleeping that night..) anyhow the homeless person lounging around campus problem has got to stop. i just dont want to step over some sleeping homeless person on my way to new testament, i dont think its very christian of them to make me do that.

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