The Prospector

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...

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...

Third time’s a charm

Javier Cortez, Sports Editor • September 16, 2014

For the third time this year, women’s tennis has a new coach, forcing them to start over once again. Three coaches in less than one year is not a methodology that UTEP tennis is practicing by choice, but luck has not been on the Miners’ side. Former...

UTEP alumn offers a new way to wake up

Kimberly Valle, Staff Reporter • September 16, 2014

A new coffeeshop is coming soon as Stacking of the Coffee Box brings a unique touch in the city’s downtown area. It is set to open UTEP alumni, Nahum Avila and Miguel Veloz co-owners of the Stacking of the Coffee Box, teamed up on and came up with...

World’s largest classic film festival keeps growing

Kimberly Valle, Staff Reporter • July 22, 2014

The Plaza Classic Film Festival, the world’s largest classic film festival, is expecting approximately 40,000 attendees from all over the country. The seventh-annual event will officially begin on Aug. 7. The idea for the festival began in 2008, with...

Number of immigrants entering U.S. border continues to rise, local initiatives form to aid

Jose Soto, Staff Reporter • July 15, 2014

Approximately 2,000 undocumented immigrants were flown into the El Paso area in June coming mainly from the South Texas region. They now await immigration hearings or possible deportation. Last week, two planes arrived full of immigrants, who were caught...

States use ballot initiatives to increase minimum wage

Kate Winkle, SHFWire reporter • July 15, 2014

When a bill to increase the minimum wage failed in the Nebraska Legislature, state Sen. Jeremy Nordquist, of Omaha, tried a different tactic. He and Sen. Danielle Conrad, of Lincoln, launched Nebraskans for Better Wages to put a minimum-wage initiative...

Disparities between male and female tenured professors still prevalent

Maria Esquinca, Staff Reporter • July 15, 2014

National statistics and trends reveal that women have lower percentages of tenure track positions than men despite a higher number of women entering the doctoral fields. The number of women receiving tenure counters trends of women receiveing degrees...

Texas Tattoo Showdown—a growing tradition among El Pasoans

Ashley Muñoz, Staff Reporter • July 15, 2014

The country’s largest tattoo and music festival, Texas Tattoo Showdown, returns to El Paso for the fifth time on July 18-20, featuring more than 300 tattoo artists from around the world at the El Paso County Coliseum. “The festival started in 2010,...

Children of the Fries designs a healthy lifestyle

Kimberly Valle, Contributor • July 15, 2014

You might have spotted their funky t-shirts, caps and stickers among the crowds at Neon Desert Music Festival. They were the products of Children of the Fries, a clothing line founded by Giovanni Silva, who lived and started his fashion career in New...

La Copa Mundial en la frontera

Héctor Bernal, Staff Reporter • July 8, 2014

Se dice que el deporte paraliza el tiempo, y que en muchos casos acapara las miradas de millones. Pero solo existe un evento al que se le reconoce por atraer al mundo entero: la Copa del Mundo. Y aunque muchos no pudieron viajar a Brasil, la fiesta mundialista...

Gamers are victims of The Slender Man

Ashley Muñoz, Staff Reporter • June 24, 2014

Imagine a world where you can change everything to the way you want it, pick the way you look by pressing a button or transform yourself from tall to short, tan to pale. A world like this may only exist in your imagination, or better yet, in video games. Video...