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UTEP President Natalicio recognized in Fortune's list of World's Greatest Leaders

UTEP President Natalicio recognized in Fortune’s list of World’s Greatest Leaders

Adrian Broaddus, Web Editor March 23, 2017

UTEP President Diana Natalicio was recognized by Fortune Magazine's 2017 list of the World's Greatest Leaders. The ranking, which is world-wide, features 50 different leaders that the magazine deemed excelled at leading effectively and followed the...

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Keeping up with the Texas Legislative Session bills

Christian Vasquez, Copy Editor March 21, 2017

The deadline to introduce a bill to the 85th Texas Legislature was on March 10, and with more than 2,700 bills and resolutions currently in the Senate and 5,200 in the House that were filed in time, there is a lot to go through. The session will end on...

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New Era Wrestling features male and female wrestlers such as The Patriot, El Tirano and Delilah—including five of founder Jose Ontiveros’ children.

A ‘New Era’ of lucha libre dawns in El Paso

Adrian Broaddus, Web Editor March 21, 2017

As the city winds down from the week on a Friday night, a whole new community emerges from a shabby warehouse on Dyer Street. New Era Wrestling, a local El Paso Lucha Libre organization, opens their doors every Friday night to hundreds of people of...

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Continuing the Revolution

Continuing the Revolution

Rene Delgadillo, Staff Reporter March 21, 2017

A group of activists are trying to build a relationship between citizens and organizations that promote a dialogue and awareness about social issues and events happening in El Paso through Facebook. Continuing the Revolution is a Facebook group where...

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Safe space open to students  through Brown Bag Series

Safe space open to students through Brown Bag Series

Grecia Sanchez, Staff Reporter March 21, 2017

Emily Martinez, senior psychology major and intern for inclusion and advocacy at the Student Engagement and Leadership Center, is in charge of the Brown Bag Series, a handful of different topic discussions for engaging students toward different view points...

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Drake’s release of playlist ‘More Life’ excites

Drake’s release of playlist ‘More Life’ excites

Adrian Broaddus, Web Editor March 21, 2017

In 2011, Drake had one of the hardest tasks: to live up to his previous impressive album, “Thank Me Later.” He not only met every level “Thank Me Later” had, but he surpassed all expectations with his benchmark album, “Take Care.” Even though...

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UTEP!Hackathon to reward creative software ideas

UTEP!Hackathon to reward creative software ideas

Eddie Velazquez, Staff Reporter March 21, 2017

With a focus on creativity, resourcefulness and problem-solving skills, the UTEP chapters of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and ACM-W (Women in Computing) are hosting the first UTEP !Hackathon from March 31 until April 2 in the Classroom Building...

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Traveling back in time with the Victorian Sci-Fi book club

Traveling back in time with the Victorian Sci-Fi book club

Claudia Flores, Contributor March 21, 2017

Tea, pastries and open discussions about science fiction novels from the 1800s is what the Victorian Sci-Fi Book and Tea Club members love to do. They meet up every third Saturday of the month to read novels, eat pastries and drink tea for only $5 dollars....

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Pokémon League is family fun

Pokémon League is family fun

Eddie Velazquez, Contributor March 21, 2017

Promoting a competitive, yet friendly family environment, Pokémon League is a weekly event that promises fans of the popular trading card game an official tournament experience every Thursday and Saturday. Marilynn and Coary Barnard started organizing...

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Elton John will perform at the Don Haskins Center on March 23.

The ‘Rocket Man’ himself set to light up Don Haskins

Michaela Roman, Editor-In-Chief March 21, 2017

Get ready to slowly wave your lighters (or cell phone flashlights) in the air, singer-songwriter icon Sir Elton John and his band are making their way to perform at 8 p.m. this Thursday, March 23, at the Don Haskins Center for the first time in 10 years...

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Ghosts915 will host the Haunted Pub Crawl on March 25. Two of the stops will be at Hotel Garder.

Haunted Pub Crawl offers unique local experience

Adrian Broaddus, Web Editor March 21, 2017

Through the illustrious history of downtown El Paso, many tales and stories of paranormal activity have been relished and brought to the present-day limelight. The city’s local paranormal organization, Ghosts915, is putting together a Haunted Pub Crawl...

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Senior infielder Kiki Pepi is currently batting .355 with two home runs and 20 runs batted in for the Miners.

UTEP softball ready to take on Southern Mississippi this weekend

Augie Touris, Contributor March 21, 2017

The UTEP softball team will face off against Southern Mississippi on Saturday, March 25, and Sunday, March 26. The Miners are starting to turn their season in a better direction after a rough start that included losses to top programs Stanford, Arizona...

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