954, Thelma White, a young African-American valedictorian from Douglas High School—El Paso’s only black high school—walked onto the dull gray cement steps of UTEP, then known as Texas Western College, in a brave attempt to do a very unordinary...

The Prospector has covered many stories since its first publication in 1915. A run like that is not lacking in controversial moments. Through the good and the bad, the student newspaper has been the source for student news and the assayer of student opinion. Although...