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For more information, please contact [email protected]. voL. 99, No. 11 THE uniVErsiTY OF TEXAs AT El PAsO November 5, 2013 BaskeTBall greaTgreaT i s s u E exPeCTaTionsexPeCTaTions PhoTo BY aaRon MonTeS & IllUSTRaTIon BY DIeGo BURcIaGa / The PRoSPecToR Moving on after adversity Back in the hunt for title By JAviER coRtEz By LUiS BARRio The prospector The prospector Over the summer, the Miners lost, then re- After a 22-10 season last year, the UTEP ceived and then lost again. Freshman forward It doesn’t matter who we play. women’s basketball team is looking to (Success) just comes down to Twymond Howard is gone aft er one year and come back and fight once again for the title nearly no playing time. Th e same goes for se- I don’t think we really care in Conference USA. having good players and us nior forward Malcolm Moore and sophomore The Miners return four of their starters working hard. It’s a lot of little Chris Washburn, who left aft er some contro- who we got in the conference, from last season, including two key players versy involving a bar fi ght. we’re just trying to win. that are back from injuries, sophomore guard things that make it happen. As bad as this was for the team, things were Jenzel Nash and senior center Kristine Vito- still on an upswing because of one highly tout- la—both had ACL injuries that kept them off ed recruit–Isaac Hamilton, who was the fi rst the court last season. They return this year ever fi ve-star recruit to sign a letter of intent at with high hopes. UTEP. Th is shocked most of the nation and El Vitola had a longer off season than the rest of Paso. It almost seemed too good to be true–and - McKenzie Moore, the team because of her injury, but is working - Keitha Adams, it was. Hamilton left UTEP before even show- junior guard to get backup to game speed. UTEP women’s basketball ing up in a highly publicized dispute between head coach see AdverSiTy on page 10 see TiTLe on page 9 PAGE 2 November 5, 2013 Editor-in-ChiEf perspectives JAsminE AGuilErA, 747-7477 guEst Column Building around a solid team we asked, By KEithA ADAmS I want our fans to know that we We are really excited about having take a lot of pride in how we play this you answered Special to The prospector two players from El Paso who will be game. The game has been good to us, on the floor for us in Stacie Telles and Basketball sea- and we need to be good teammates, Kayla Thornton. son is back and POLL RESULTS have good chemistry and be sisters. We’ve received great support over we are really ex- It’s really important that for our play- the years from El Paso in my 12 years. How did you spend your Halloween this year? cited to get this ers the team comes first, and that they I’d really like to encourage anyone year started. We take care of one another. have put in a lot We are healthy, which feels great. who hasn’t been to one of our games of work and will We have Kristine Vitola and Jenzel to check us out. We work very hard to just continue to Nash back on the court after missing put a good product on the court and take it one day at a time. last year with ACLs. Overall we have our marketing staff does a great job of We would really like to make a a very solid nucleus of returnees and making our fans a part of the experi- good run this year and get back into we are putting a lot of pressure on ence through different promotions. the NCAA Tournament. We’d love to them at practice. We want them to be We hope that you’re as excited as we obtain a championship in our confer- the first ones on the floor, to do every- are about the year, and look forward ence. Those things are the ultimate thing right. to seeing you at The Don Haskins experience for a college basketball We have seven newcomers and we Center this season! player, and if you talk to anybody, want them to be able to watch our that is their goal. returnees and learn how to do things Keitha Adams is the head coach of the UtEP women’s 63% the right way. basketball team. staff Column davis: the best choice for students 37% By S. DAviD RAmiREz enced. As a single mother, she worked Some of us have experienced this first- while attending a community college, hand as small-tract farmers, colonias’ The prospector transferred to a university and ulti- inhabitants or outdoor recreationists. The Texas gu- mately advanced to Harvard Univer- Prop. 6 establishes a Water Fund, bernatorial race sity to complete her law degree. under the purview of the Texas Wa- is still a year away, Like many of my fellow students, I ter Development Board, to create and but candidates on cannot remember a time when Texas administer a water plan that will help both sides of the stood as a blue state. the driest parts of the state plan for an political spec- Under the Republican regime, we increasingly arid future. trum are muster- have seen the introduction of restric- It is important to have our voices Staying at home and watching scary movies. ing support for tive voter ID laws, questionable poli- heard. So as we cast our gaze forward, their sprint toward the highest office in cies regarding textbook content, disre- let’s make history. Dressing in a costume and partying. the Lone Star State. gard for women’s reproductive choices S. David Ramirez may be reached at theprospectordaily. Currently declared on the Repub- and an almost systemic discrimination [email protected]. lican side of the aisle are a series of against the LGBTQI community. secessionists, pundits and a past chair We’re still a year away from the of the Texas Republican Party. election, so consider the impact Greg Abbot, attorney general of that each candidate can have on the Texas, is the front-runner and will future of Texas. likely be the GOP candidate. Meanwhile, there are more items Currently, only one Democrat has on the Texas political agenda that de- announced their candidacy: State serve our attention. Nov. 5 is Election Rep. Wendy Davis. Day. For most El Paso residents, the Polling conducted this September ballot consists of a series of nine con- by the Texas Lyceum, a non-partisan stitutional amendments. think-tank, shows that Davis and Ab- Three proposals have significant bott are currently only separated by a bearing on UTEP students. handful of points, though a vast ma- As a community, we have pros- jority of Texas voters feel they do not pered with the expansion of Fort have enough information to decide Bliss. Military families have settled in on a candidate. the Southwest, making El Paso—and Neither individual’s platforms have ultimately UTEP—their home, bring- been fully revealed, but as it stands, ing a wealth of resources and oppor- Davis seems to represent an ideal tunities with them. candidate for students. Propositions 1 and 4 allow the Tex- During her recent visit to El Paso, as Legislature to exempt certain tax Davis began her effort to sway aca- obligations on the properties of sol- demics by proclaiming, “I am run- diers who have been killed in the line ning because I believe in the prom- of duty or severely disabled as a result ise of Texas, which is delivered most of their service. profoundly through our support for While this is a worthwhile effort, the big- public and higher education.” gest item on this ballot is Proposition 6. She represents the struggle that El Pasoans are all too familiar with many UTEP Miners have experi- the plight of living in the dry desert. Speak your mind STAFF voL. 99, N o. 11 Submit a letter to the editor! Editor-in-Chief: Jasmine Aguilera Contributors: Jaime Quesada, Luis Barrio Letters will be edited for clarity and brevity. Letters over 250 words are subject to editing to fit available space. Please include full Layout Editor: Diego Burciaga Asst. 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