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A grand review for a grand opening

Meagan Elizabeth García, Arts & Culture March 3, 2023

When it comes to the activities and attractions El Paso has to offer, some of the city’s most iconic are age-friendly staples in the borderland. Whether it is cruising down Scenic Drive or taking a splash at Wet N’ Wild during the summer heat, there...

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El Paso high school students march toward San Jacinto Plaza in downtown El Paso as they participate in the national March For Our Lives on Saturday, March 24.

March For Our Lives rally takes over downtown El Paso

Elenie Gonzalez and Michaela Román March 24, 2018

Hundreds of demonstrators including students, educators and parents took the streets of downtown El Paso in unison with the national March For Our Lives movement. The El Paso march was just one of at least 846 other planned protests across the globe on...

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An inside look at the streetcar project

An inside look at the streetcar project

Adrian Broaddus, Web Editor February 21, 2017

Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Jackson, assistant director of Streetcar Operations at Sun Metro, was always infatuated with trains, subways and any other means of public transportation. Coming from a third generation of public transportation specialists,...

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UTEP students organize “Not My President” peaceful protest

Christian Vasquez, Copy Editor November 12, 2016

While riots in Portland, Oregon and Oakland, California have sprung up since the election results, in El Paso, Texas over a thousand people in San Jacinto Plaza chose to peacefully protest the rhetoric and policies of President-elect Donald Trump. Alphonso...

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Plaza Theatre

Plaza Classic Film Festival gaining popularity

Andres Gallegos, Contributor August 22, 2016

The Plaza Classic Film Festival graced the streets of downtown once again with films for the ­­ninth year in a row, from Aug. 4-14. The variety of films ranged from productions such as “Giant," “Apocalypse Now” and the “Star Wars” trilogy...

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Boarder City Game Convention attendees play a zombie board game the second day of the convention.

Meeple Game Society hosts first gaming convention

Gaby Velasquez, Staff Photographer August 4, 2016

The Meeple Board Game society, a gaming club at UTEP, held the very first Boarder City Game Convention from July 29 - 31 at the Tomás Rivera Conference Center. The club’s co-founder Rogelio Long, a doctoral student in computational science, said...

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske explains the several factors that go into border wait times and how they can be improved.

UTEP hosts day one of the US-Mexico 2015 Summit

Julio Cesar-Chavez, Staff Reporter August 7, 2015

EL PASO, Texas - UTEP hosted day one of the US-Mexico 2015 Summit, organized by the office of U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso. The event is meant to bring together hundreds of leaders in the public and private sectors from Mexico D.F., Washington...

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Love wins in El Paso

Amanda Guillen, Editor-in-Chief June 26, 2015

  For richer or for poorer, until death do they part, under the United States Constitution same-sex couples were married in El Paso, Texas.   At approximately 12:20 p.m. on June 26, Yairo Herrera and Luke Oleander became the first...

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The Prospector News Weekly (Special Edition) : Iron Focus

Amanda Guillen, Managing Editor April 8, 2015

With their minds on training and gaining valuable skills before they go to the National Training Center in California, thousands of Ft.Bliss soldiers took part in Iron Focus, one of Ft.Bliss’s largest training exercises of the year. Among these soldiers...

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3 years and more than 200 issues later

Diego Burciaga, Layout Editor December 2, 2014

It was three years and four months ago that I transferred from the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez and started my first semester at UTEP. A week before class began, I started looking for a job. Some one told me about Job Mine, I logged in and...

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Girl poses as someone that has been effected by domestic violence.

Domestic violence in LGBTQA community

Maria Esquinca, Staff Reporter December 2, 2014

A recent campus study revealed that bisexual women are more likely to experience sexual assault, compared to other members of the LGBTQA community. The survey, titled Sexual Attitudes Behaviors and Experiences Survey II, was conducted by the Women’s...

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Organization aims to unite border region

Organization aims to unite border region

Amanda Guillen, Managing Editor/Multimedia Editor December 2, 2014

The Borderplex Alliance is making it its mission to change the way El Paso, Chihuahua and portions of southern New Mexico work together in order to create a healthy local economy by recruiting business and industry to the region. The 2-year-old private,...

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