The Prospector

Protestors object to Gov. Abbott’s visit

Christian Vasquez, Copy Editor • February 21, 2017

Governor Gregg Abbott’s visit to El Paso for the El Paso Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner fundraiser drew approximately 150 protestors Saturday, Feb. 18, outside the Blackstone Event Center. The protestors were largely against Senate Bill 4,...

Mexican scholars gather to discuss border relations

Eddie Velazquez, Contributor • February 21, 2017

A panel of three borderland scholars gathered at UTEP’s Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for Visual Arts on Feb. 20, to discuss border relations in the era of current President Donald Trump. Dr. Tony Payan, economist Lucinda Vargas and Professor...

‘Roe’ of Roe V. Wade has died

Leslie Sariñana, Entertainment Editor • February 18, 2017

Norma McCorvey, the force behind the historical Roe V. Wade Supreme Court ruling, which legalized abortion in the U.S. in 1973, has died at 69-years-old. McCorvey is better known as Jane Roe, the pseudonym she used to remain anonymous during the trial....

UTEP professor wins early American literature prize

Mike Flores, Reporter • February 18, 2017

Robert Gunn, an associate professor of English at UTEP, was awarded the Early American Literature Book Prize for 2016 for his book “Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands”. “On a personal...

Day without immigrants and without El Pasoans

Grecia Sanchez, Reporter • February 18, 2017

The day without immigrants brought national attention as a boycott from U.S. citizens was held all day Thursday. Several employers closed their businesses and children throughout the nation did not attend school. Despite these facts, El Paso kept itself...

Discretion to Deny: a report explaining the negative experiences along the U.S./ Mexico border

Rene Delgadillo, Staff Reporter • February 15, 2017

This Wednesday the El Paso-based Borderland Immigration Council presented a report named "Discretion to Deny: Family Separation, Prolonged Detention, and Deterrence of Asylum Seekers at the hands of Immigration Authorities along the U.S. -Mexico Border". This...

El Pasoans unite against Governor Abbott

Christian Vasquez, Copy Editor • February 14, 2017

Governor Greg Abbott is visiting El Paso as a guest speaker of the El Paso Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Dinner, and several El Paso organizations are uniting outside of the fundraiser to protest Abbott’s political stances. The protest, El...

Young Democratic Socialists define socialism on the border

Michaela Román, Editor in Chief • February 14, 2017

When the 2016 presidential elections came to a close, over two million millennials—those under the age of 30—voted for Bernie Sanders. Statistics from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement concluded this was more...

Trump proposes repeal of Johnson Amendment

Adrian Broaddus, Web Editor • February 14, 2017

While President Donald Trump plans to construct a wall between Mexico and America’s border, he has also begun to talk about breaking down the walls between church and state. The Johnson Amendment has been recently questioned and there is talk about...

Randi Zuckerberg to make a stop on campus

Jason Green • February 14, 2017

New York Times best-selling author, Harvard graduate, Emmy-nominated television anchor, early Facebook marketing manager and current media mogul, Randi Zuckerberg, will be speaking on campus at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 21, at the Undergraduate Learning Center,...

Statistics professor works to preserve land

Rene Delgadillo, Staff Reporter • February 14, 2017

Seven hundred miles away from her birthplace, associate professor of statistics, Amy Wagler, found the city and university she now calls home. Wagler has taught at UTEP for more than eight years. She earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics at...

Sexual assault on campus rarely reported

Rene Delgadillo, Staff Reporter • February 7, 2017

During the fiscal year 2015, UTEP had one incident of rape and one incident of fondling (touching the private parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification without the consent of the victim), according to the campus’ 2016 Annual Security...