The Prospector

Homecoming Calendar of Events

October 7, 2014

List of 2014 Centennial Homecoming events

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Seis razones para tener al mundo en la lengua

Gianfranco Languasco, Contributor • September 30, 2014

Lo importante en estos tiempos de globalización es tener la oportunidad de acercarnos a otras culturas sin necesidad de salir de la ciudad. Es común encontrarse con personas de otros países, diferentes costumbres y hasta abiertas manifestaciones culturales...