University of Texas at El Paso

never been a part of it. Growing up in El Paso, Texas, I was raised in a community with multicultural influences. I would hear Spanish being spoken, but it was always from a distance. Moreover, even though it is part of my own Puerto Rican heritage, I did not grow up in a household that spoke Spanish. It wasn’t until I transferred to Texas Tech University that my interest in Hispanic culture expanded and became my focus. I was introduced to the Texas Tech University Center in Seville study…

Introduction It is an honor to present the next Governor of Texas, Ms. Jane “Bitzi’ Johnson Miller. Ms. Miller is a loyal Texas conservative that hails from West Texas where she was born and raised on a ranch. She comes from a proud line of Texans who have served their community. Her grandfather was former Texas Governor, Joe “Big Daddy” Johnson from 1954 through 1958. Ms. Miller attended the University of Texas at Austin where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a…

Exactly, who is El Chapo? Why is his name provoking fear and admiration in Mexico? Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, or known as “El Chapo (Shorty) Guzmán” for his 5 feet 6 inches stature, despite not being well-known by most Americans, is the head of the El Chapo Sinaloa Cartel, currently the biggest drug empire in the history. Over the years, he has built a corporate that makes him billions of dollars from selling synthetic drugs such as: marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine. In fact…

Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas March 26, 1930. She lived a pioneer like life on a ranch with her parents. This helped her grow her independent spirit of a hard working woman. Her family also encouraged her to strive to be educated. O’Connor attended Stanford University where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics. After that she then attended Stanford Law school and received a law degree and graduated third in her class along with a future colleague William Rehnquist…

Improvement makes roads straight but crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. William Blake As indicated in my sporadic publishing record, I have been dabbling in poetry a little over twenty years. I spent my first ten years writing and attending readings and workshops. A couple of poems were published which thrilled me, but I had no idea why they were published while other work was rejected. As a frustrated writer I started a reading series with my wife’s ballet…

to a population of over 80% Latino people, the bustling city emulates a traditional Mexican community (El Paso). Through this environment and his undocumented immigrant mother, Gilb developed a strong bond with Chicano culture, going on to study and advocate for it later in college. To this day, he continues to thrive in the Latino community by working as a writer-in-residence at the University of Houston’s Centro Victoria, a center that focuses on Mexican American literature and culture (Meyer…

and associations to uncover these practices and refusal to utilize monstrous assets to bolster the Chicano development. The Raza Unida Party was set up on January 17, 1970, at a meeting of 300 Mexican Americans at Campestre Hall in Crystal City, Texas. Jose Angel Gutiérrez and Mario Compean, who had discovered Mayo (the Mexican American Youth Organization)…

Whenever the new players arrived in El Paso, they did not have a great first meeting with the new players, who happened to be white. Whenever the players began to practice for Coach Haskins, Haskins wanted them to change the way they played the game so that they play the way the game had always…

it being sports, or in class academics. With statistics showing hat the “median athletic spending was nearly $92,000 per athlete in 2010, while median academic spending per full-time equivalent (FTE) student was less than $14,000 in these same universities”. This very large offset is what is limiting students to fewer opportunities within the actual colleges. College administration should start prioritizing clubs, and programs to help students with what they need, or at least provide a balance…

for many years and now many companies have it as a requirement for their learning programs. It helps a person have a good development and retention of information, it also helps an individual have better interactions with each other. Our visits to El Paso Community College in the mentoring program were helpful and even though the students did not engage with us as much as we hoped for, it helps the mentors figure out ways and try to get others involved. A mentor is an individual with expertise…