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Miner women take crucial win over Florida Atlantic

Miner women take crucial win over Florida Atlantic

Jason Green, Sports Editor February 23, 2017

One down. One more to go. UTEP women’s basketball head coach Keith Adams told her team that this was going to be a big week and her team played like it on Thursday night. The Miners defeated the visiting Florida Atlantic Owls by a final score...

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Holding Hands In Unity

Holding Hands In Unity

Christian Vasquez, Copy Editor February 12, 2017

  Fifty people locked arms across the Paso del Norte International Bridge in protest of President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall on Sunday, Feb. 12. The protest was organized by Chandelier Treviso, sophomore English and American literature...

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UTEP President Natalicio appointed to board of The Holdsworth Center

UTEP President Natalicio appointed to board of The Holdsworth Center

Adrian Broaddus, Web Editor January 19, 2017

UTEP President Diana Natalicio was appointed to the board of The Holdsworth Center in Austin, Texas, as announced on Thursday, Jan. 19. The Holdsworth Center is dedicated to support and develop public school leaders with a goal to strengthen Texas' education....

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NFLPA Collegiate Bowl invites pair of Miners to participate

NFLPA Collegiate Bowl invites pair of Miners to participate

Adrian Broaddus, Web Editor January 18, 2017

Tight end Hayden Plinke and linebacker Nick Usher will participate in the 2017 NFLPA Collegiate Bowl in Carson, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 21, on Fox Sports 1 at 2:15 p.m. MT. The two players will be introduced to different NFL scouts and the event...

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Students relax during finals week with Up All Night and Midnight Breakfast

Students relax during finals week with Up All Night and Midnight Breakfast

December 7, 2016

UTEP's Division of Student Affairs and Office of Student Life host Up All Night and the Midnight Breakfast on Tuesday, Dec. 6, at Union Building East. Free coffee and donuts were served, students played board games at the Union's Tomas Rivera Conference...

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Photo courtesy of Comedy Central.

Trevor Noah and Tomi Lahren debate on ‘Daily Show’

Eric Vasquez, Entertainment Editor December 1, 2016

Trevor Noah of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” invited Tomi Lahren from “The Blaze” on Wednesday night's episode. The two have been the internet faces of two streams of ideology: the liberal and the conservative, respectively. With most...

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Farewell to UTEP

Farewell to UTEP

Shericka Lawrence, Staff Reporter November 29, 2016

I didn’t know what my life would turn out to be when I moved to El Paso back in 2012. But what I did know was that I was making a change in my life that was most definitely needed. I came here in the summer of 2012 and the rest is history. I first...

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Appreciation Bash hosted for Veteran's Day

Appreciation Bash hosted for Veteran’s Day

Gaby Velasquez, Photo Editor November 11, 2016

The Military Student Success Center hosted the Veteran's Day Appreciation Bash on Friday, Nov. 11 at the Union Plaza. The 1st Armored Division Band and rock band Shockwave performed at the event. Military affiliated students and veterans were able to...

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Students had the ability to play a number of retro arcade style games

Arcade tournament heats up RSO olympic homecoming week

October 29, 2016

As part of homecoming week, various student organizations took part in the RSO olympics, a week filled with different competitive events. The arcade tournament took place at the Union on October 28th. Students played games that varied from Pandora to...

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Six years later and I still can’t come up with a good headline

Pamela Prieto October 27, 2016

In 2010, right after one of the worst years in the history of newspapers, I graduated from UTEP with a bachelor’s degree  in print media. You would think that walking out of commencement into an industry that was being turned on its head, with the...

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Miner Morning Mania

Miner Morning Mania

Nina Titovets, Contributor October 26, 2016

On October 26th at 5:30 a.m, the moon was up and most of El Paso was still sleeping, but the UTEP homecoming court, band, cheerleaders, GoldDiggers, alumni and students gathered together in the P-9 parking lot to take part in Miner Morning Mania, a pep-rally...

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Haunted Campus

Gloria Heredia, Reporter October 21, 2016

  [aesop_video align="center" src="youtube" id="oLlc84e5cuo" disable_for_mobile="on" loop="on" autoplay="on" controls="on" viewstart="on" viewend="on"] With over 100 years since it’s opening, UTEP is believed to be haunted, as some students...

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