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Mextasy exhibit coming to UTEP

Mextasy exhibit coming to UTEP

October 8, 2014

The UTEP Department of Communications and the Chicano Studies program presents a lecture and exhibit by Dr. William Anthony Nericcio that examines American visual culture reflecting images and stereotypes of Latinas/os. "Mextasy: Seductive Hallucinations...

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Homecoming Calendar of Events

Homecoming Calendar of Events

October 7, 2014

List of 2014 Centennial Homecoming events

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Contestants participate in the annual pagenat that kicks off this year’s homecomimg festivities.

Centennial pageant lights up auditorium

Kimberly Valle, Staff Reporter October 7, 2014

The university officially kicked off homecoming festivities with its traditional pageant that took place Sunday, Oct. 5 at the Magoffin Auditorium. With this year’s theme being UTEP’s 100th birthday celebration, the participants had the chance to...

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New flavors tease taste buds

New flavors tease taste buds

Maria Esquinca, Staff Reporter October 7, 2014

A plethora of unexpected flavors meet my tongue. Lemonade, grapefruit, pumpkin pie, honey, chocolate, they all meet my taste buds in their liquid form, an unexpected surprise to my pallet. Other flavors twist my tongue around and stab it with their bitter...

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Chalk the Block will be held Oct. 10-12 in downtown El Paso.

Color is back on the streets

Gianfranco Languasco, Contributor October 7, 2014

An octopus will take over a building in downtown El Paso,  while people enjoy a luminous giant jellyfish marching down the street and others go through a silken fabric maze and get out to walk through colored glowing streets. This surrealistic scenario...

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La Union Corn Maze is located at 1101 New Mexico 28, Anthony, New Mexico.

Corn Maze celebrates UTEP’s 100-year birthday

Kimberly Valle, Staff Reporter October 7, 2014

This year’s La Union Maze will be showcasing their art, which has been created by a group of professionals who have been doing this for years. The design involves the addition of a birthday cake along with candles numbered 100 on top in recognition...

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Student participation increases for homecoming events

Luis Barrio, Staff Reporter October 7, 2014

Richard Daniel, executive director of alumni relations, said he has noticed an increase in student participation every year for homecoming and student participation in campus events in general. “When I was here seven years ago, I didn’t see students...

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Sun City SciFi Expo—small convention, big smiles

Joseph Esposito, Staff Reporter October 5, 2014

“I came to see Billy West,” junior English & American major Stephanie Amerena said at the Sun City SciFi Fan Expo on October 5. “I'm a huge fan.” Amerena, who was cosplaying as Happy the blue, flying cat from Fairy Tail, was one of hundreds...

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El Paso is pretty fly for a sci-fi

El Paso is pretty fly for a sci-fi

Joseph Esposito, Staff Reporter October 3, 2014

Cosplayers, artists, otaku, and gamers will fill the Convention Center this weekend, ensuring that the Sun City SciFi Fan Expo is one to be remembered. Grab your lightsaber and practice your Yoda impression, because El Paso is going Tatooine on Oct. 4-5. “I'm...

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Tom Lea’s mural “Stampede” was the subject of a conference in Washington after it was damaged. “Stampede,” mural, 1940. Oil on canvas, 5½ x 16 feet. U.S. Post Office, Odessa, Texas. Commissioned through the Section of Fine Arts, 1934-1943. Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration

Tom Lea’s influence in the nation’s capital, my home away from home

Lorain Watters, SHFWire reporter October 1, 2014

Walls of brick and metal surround me, and the sunsets of D.C. feel foreign on my skin. If I close my eyes long enough, the steel structures of the city melt in to the sloping brown backs of my mountains, and I’m home again, if only for a second. It...

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Tom Lea’s mural “Stampede” was the subject of a conference in Washington after it was damaged. “Stampede,” mural, 1940. Oil on canvas, 5½ x 16 feet. U.S. Post Office, Odessa, Texas. Commissioned through the Section of Fine Arts, 1934-1943. Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration.

Artist Tom Lea commemorated, American murals to be better preserved

Lorain Watters, SHFWire reporter October 1, 2014

WASHINGTON – Damage to one New Deal mural sparked a national conference Wednesday to address the importance of preserving art throughout the country. The glowing red eyes of a black Texas longhorn stand out from the chaotic scene of a raging herd...

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Hispanics stereotyped since the start of the film industry

Kimberly Valle, Staff Reporter September 30, 2014

As early as the silent film era, Latinos were one of the most stereotyped ethnicities in film. In 1910, “The Thread of Destiny” used the phrase “greaser” to depict Mexican as “banditos.” During the time when revolutionaries were struggling...

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