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Daniel Rios visits the Career Closet to get fitted for a suit.

Career Closet rents brand-name professional clothing, free to students

Amanda Guillen, Staff Reporter February 25, 2014

UTEP’s Division of Student Affairs, in partnership with the Career Center, is working to provide students with professional business attire that can be used for interviews, career fairs and networking events. Students will be able to borrow these...

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The Prospector’s monday night playist

, The Prospector staff February 24, 2014

Every Tuesday The Prospector releases a print edition of our publication. This means a long day of work every Monday that usually carries on into late hours of the night. Between editing stories, finding sources, designing pages and the occasional...

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Naomi Fertman, associate professor in the Women’s Studies Program, teaching the course “Women and Work in the Sex Industry.”

Sex industry course offers discussion on taboo subjects

Maria Esquinca, Staff Reporter February 11, 2014

In a small classroom, hands are being raised in the air and loud murmurs are echoing across the room. On the wall you see the words “PORN AND FREE SPEECH” projected in bold white letters. This is just a normal day in Associate Professor Naomi Fertman’s...

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By hosting speakers from different educational backgrounds, resilience as part of dealing with this issue was addressed at the event.

Conference Center hosts Resiliency and Hispanic Mental Health Centennial Symposium

Jose Soto, Staff reporter January 28, 2014

A symposium that gathered social workers, doctors, physicians, psychologists and professors sought to inform about mental health related issues within the Hispanic community.  By hosting speakers from different educational backgrounds, resilience as...

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At the conference, attorneys Lauren D. Serrano and Alan Gluth spoke about the legal aspects of estate planning and transfer taxes.

Forty-eighth annual estate planning conference holds first of five-part series

Javier Cortez, Staff reporter January 23, 2014

In the first of a five-part series, the UTEP’s Woman’s Auxiliary and the Office of Institutional Advancement hosted its 48th annual estate planning conference for women  Thursday at the library. At the conference, attorneys Lauren D. Serrano and...

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I gathered the courage to ask a professional reporter to take a picture of me at the White House press room podium. I didn’t want to seem like the eager, over-excited new comer, but I had no choice. I was at the White House.

Keep your cool, people are nice

Alejandro Alba, SHFWire reporter January 22, 2014

“Look professional,” I told myself as I walked into the White House through what I thought was the main entrance. It was my first time walking into the most popular house in the U.S. Of course, I would be excited and nervous. I constantly restrained...

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The eternal flame burns at Kennedy’s gravesite, where his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis, is also buried. A wreath-laying ceremony will take place Friday, Nov. 22, at Arlington National Cemetery, and on Monday, Nov. 25, the Irish Defense Forces 37th Cadet Class will conduct a remembrance ceremony.

JFK remembered as anniversary of his death nears

Sean Bradley, Scripps Howard Foundation Wire Reporter November 21, 2013

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-RjZUeaw0rI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> WASHINGTON – There was one thing Warren Hensley, then 5, thought about after hearing of President John F. Kennedy’s...

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Immigration reform supporters give their blessing Tuesday to people who are fasting in tents on the National Mall near the Capitol. Five volunteers have committed to fasting for an immigration reform bill that includes to citizenship

Democrats, faith groups make last push for immigration reform this year

Andres Rodriguez, Scripps Howard Foundation Wire Reporter November 16, 2013

WASHINGTON– Members of Congress, along with faith and labor groups, are making one last push to pass comprehensive immigration reform by the end of the year, despite warnings that the House leadership has no plans to cooperate. At a Nov.13 press...

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El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser was in Washington D.C. For the Association of the U.S Army expo, where he met with military contractors.

El Paso mayor and Chamber of Commerce call for regional military partnerships

Andres Rodriguez, Scripps Howard Foundation Wire Reporter October 26, 2013

WASHINGTON– Regional military partnerships were at the top of the agenda for El Paso business and city government officials as they visited the nation’s capital this week. Members of the Greater El Paso Chamber of Commerce attended the Association...

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The Nexus 7 32GB is now at $259 at Best Buy and Future Shop.

Nexus 7: The sequel that’s better than the original

Jaime Quesada, Contributor October 22, 2013

The Nexus 7 is a 7-inch tablet created by Google and built by ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Just when we thought normal-sized tablets were the last piece of technology we would need, they come out with this. I have to say though, that this is one sequel that...

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Someone fits in my suitcase

Someone fits in my suitcase

Alejandro Alba, Travel Correspondent September 5, 2013

I’m currently taking applications for anyone interested in traveling in a 32’’ bag for eight hours to London. Well, if only. But really, I can fit a person and a chihuahua dog in one of my suitcases. Manchas and I do fit in one suitcase comfortably. The...

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