Kerry Figueroa, sophomore electrical engineering major, laid facedown in the grass on Leech Grove Friday morning to protest police brutality. He decided to protest peacefully when he learned that New York Police Department Officer Daniel Pantaleo will...

The purchase of 443 acres of land, where the former ASARCO smelter site was located, is an agenda item for UTEP in the coming year. The University of Texas Board of Regents met for two days on Nov. 5 and 6 at UTEP and discussed the potential purchase...

Armando Silva was an average college student, who worked two jobs and went to school at the same time. He managed to handle it all through his positive spirit. Involved in food hospitality as a manager for more than a decade, Silva is now ready for his...

Coming off a two-win season last year, a three-win season would already be an improvement, that’s how low expectations were this year for UTEP’s football team. Seven wins later, the Miners are going bowling and all their troubles seem to have been...

The UTEP Miners closed their 2014 season at home against Middle Tennessee. The Miners who are 6-5 are playing another 6-5-conference team with Middle Tennessee. Middle Tennessee and UTEP are bowl eligible but both face the possibility of missing out...

In their last match of the season the UTEP women’s volleyball lost to Texas Christian University at Memorial Gym 3-1 (25-17, 16-25, 25-20, 25-19). The match started as a back and forth affair through the first 10 points, but TCU would go on a 6-2...

By Javier Cortez The Prospector   Playing their first match in 13 days, the UTEP women’s volleyball team took on their archrival New Mexico State in the Battle of I-10 at Memorial Gym, the Aggies defeated the Miners 3-0 (25-22, 25-23,...

Protest signs defiantly raised in the air, El Pasoan’s rallied in solidarity for Michael Brown in front of the county courthouse. The rally is one of many happening across the country after Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot unarmed teenager...

WASHINGTON – Earline Budd came out as transgender to her Baptist family when she was a 9-year-old boy. Like many transgender women, the Washington native was in for a rough time. Her family didn’t accept her, and she said it was a traumatic experience. The...

WASHINGTON – A crowd shouted “sí se puede, sí se pudo,” or "yes we can, yes we could," echoing into the empty Lafayette Park, as they held Mexican and American flags, dancing in the winter breeze. What may have seemed like a protest from afar...

In the first round of the Battle of I-10 the UTEP men’s basketball team defeated the New Mexico State Aggies 77-76 in thrilling fashion at the Don Haskins Center in front of a ruckus crowd of 11,127. The game had a peculiar start as UTEP head...

Aproximadamente 80 personas participaron en la manifestación Todos Somos Ayotzinapa que tuvo lugar hoy jueves 20 de noviembre del 2014. La protesta inicio a las afueras del edificio de la Unión de la Universidad de Texas en El Paso y después finalizo...