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Assayer of Student Opinion.

The Prospector

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Sun City Music Fest releases lineup

Eddie Velazquez, Entertainment Editor June 7, 2017

Labor day weekend has come to mean one thing for music enthusiasts and electronic music lovers in El Paso: Sun City Music Festival. This year the festival will be held at Ascarate Park on Sept. 2 and 3. The lineup for this year’s iteration of...

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UTEP names new women’s tennis coach

Mike Flores, Sports Editor June 6, 2017

UTEP women’s tennis hired former New Mexico State head coach, Ivan Fernandez to take over as head coach. Fernandez ran the show for the Aggies for seven years, which included four consecutive berths in the Western Athletic Conference championship...

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Four UTEP Track and Field members earn regional awards

Four UTEP Track and Field members earn regional awards

Mike Flores, Sports Editor June 6, 2017

UTEP’s standout freshman Emmanuel Korir, was named male Mountain Region Track Athlete of the Year, while Tobi Amusan took home the female Mountain Region Track Athlete of the Year. Both the men’s and women’s assistant coaches for UTEP, Paul Ereng...

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Miike Snow brings electro indie set to Tricky Falls

Miike Snow brings electro indie set to Tricky Falls

Adrian Broaddus, Editor-In-Chief June 6, 2017

Remember back in 2009 when the indie rock craze skyrocketed in the music world? The XX had just launched their debut album and had every hipster wearing skinny jeans, rocking a striped t-shirt and listening to "Islands." Phoenix stole the indie spotlight...

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Reviewing MLBs most surprising teams after first two months

Reviewing MLB’s most surprising teams after first two months

Jeremy Carranco, Contributor June 5, 2017

With the first-quarter of the 2017 Major League Baseball season in the books, teams from both the National League and American League have provided baseball fans with excitement and some interesting developments in the young season. Surprising National...

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The audience at NDMF 2017 during Baauers performance.

Relive Neon Desert 2017

June 4, 2017

[arve url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X3YtZ7Altpc" /] Neon Desert Musical Festival 2017 saw over 40,000 attendees across two sold out days Memorial Day weekend. The lineup included Hardwell, Foster the People, J Balvin, Migos, Alesso, Logic, Nelly,...

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Pride Month will be celebrating its 12th year in El Paso.

El Paso celebrates the 10th annual Pride Fest

Gaby Velasquez, Photo Editor June 4, 2017

The El Paso Sun City Pride Organization hosted the 10th annual El Paso Pride Festival parade on Saturday. The parade is held in June every year as it is LGBTQ pride month. The festival consisted of various of events starting Thursday, May 25 to Sunday,...

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Duranguito solidarity march advocates for preservation of community

Duranguito solidarity march advocates for preservation of community

Adrian Broaddus, Editor-In-Chief June 3, 2017

[arve url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FNtdpjEC-D0" /] Advocating against the construction of a $180 million arena near the Union Plaza downtown, about 60 protesters assembled on Saturday at Firefighter's Memorial Park for a “Stand for Duranguito”...

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Two couples dance to the music at the Civic Center Plaza on Friday, June 2.

Alfresco! Fridays returns for its 15 season

Gaby Velasquez, Photo Editor June 2, 2017

Season 15 of concert series, Alfresco! Fridays showcases a diverse mix of music, ranging from Mariachi to 80's rock. The series is free and is hosted every Friday at 6 p.m. running from May 5 through September 1 at the One Civic Center Plaza. In addition...

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Chihuahuas fall short despite late surge against Salt Lake

Chihuahuas fall short despite late surge against Salt Lake

Mike Flores, Sports Editor June 2, 2017

The El Paso Chihuahuas trailed the Salt Lake Bees 10-0 at the end of the third inning and they nearly pulled off the largest comeback in team history, as they came up short against the Bess 11-10 at Southwest University Park. Salt Lake’s C.J....

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Minetracks: May in review

Minetracks: May in review

Adrian Broaddus and Leslie Sariñana June 1, 2017

Editor’s note: (A) May was 2017’s peak at its finest and most everyone slept on this month hardcore. There was great indie music from the likes of Alex G, Mac DeMarco and Perfume Genuius as there was top hip-hop albums from the likes of Snoop Dogg,...

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UTEP announces 2017 Athletics Hall of Fame

Mike Flores, Sports Editor June 1, 2017

The 2017 UTEP Athletic Hall of Fame class features five former Miner athletes to round out the 15th induction class. The inities into the Hall of Fame include Antonio Davis, Seth Joyner, Blessing Okagbare, Cynthia Ruelas-Macias and Paul Stankowski....

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