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The Prospector, February 26, 2019, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Arts & Entertainment Issue

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The Prospector, February 19, 2019, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Movement Mujeres Launches Fellowship for Women of Color in Texas

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The Prospector, February 12, 2019, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: El Paso Shows Both Love and Hate for President Donald Trump

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The Prospector, February 5, 2019, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: 3D Printing on Campus

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The Prospector, January 29, 2019, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Stalking Awareness Month

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The Prospector, January 22, 2019, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Welcome Back Tier 1

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Henosis Experience In Gaming: A Metric For Adjustments To Global Schema And Appraised Meaning, Evan Robert Watts

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Meaningfulness is a media gratification distinct from enjoyment characterized by feelings of insight, contemplation, and poignancy. Video games, too, can elicit experiences of meaningfulness, but the mechanisms underlying meaningfulness are unclear and in need of further exploration. Adapting work from existential psychology, this research proposes the construct of henosis as one mechanism that might contribute to meaningful video game experiences. Henosis is a response to experiences in which a person’s fundamental schema about the world (global schema) is challenged by an event which contradicts this schema. Henosis describes the process by which this discrepancy is resolved via either reappraising the …

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Telling The Good News, Allyson R. Escobar

Capstones

In light of recent clergy abuse scandals, cover-ups and leadership shake-downs, it is a divided time in the Catholic Church: but this isn’t the whole story. My final capstone project is a critical essay of how Catholicism (and religion overall) is represented in mainstream media--particularly in secular news publications and entertainment (horror films) in the United States. By examining the coverage and how conversations differ within members of the Catholic Church--from journalists and critics to active Catholics, religious men and women--this project calls for greater accountability, fairness, faith representation in all media, and the overall claim that there are Catholic …

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