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The University of Texas at El Paso is a four-year state university, and is a component institution of the University of Texas System. Its campus is located on the bank of the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas. The school was founded in 1914 as The Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy,... and a mineshaft still exists on the mountainous, desert campus. It became Texas Western College in 1949, and The University of Texas El Paso in 1967. In Fall 2011, enrollment was 22,640. UTEP is the largest university in the U.S. with a majority Mexican-American student population . It is the only such university to be classified RU/H " by the Carnegie Foundation. Other notable features of UTEP are its campus architecture , and its athletic history . The school officially opened on September 23, 1914, with 27 students in buildings at Fort Bliss. By 1916 enrollment had grown to 39 students, and women were allowed to enroll.
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Crosbyton is a city in and the county seat of Crosby County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,874 at the 2000 census. Crosbyton is part of the Lubbock Metropolitan Statistical Area. Former Crosby County administrative County Judge Joseph P. Heflin represented District 85 in the Texas... House of Representatives from 2007-2011. During his tenure Heflin was the only Democrat from either West Texas or the Panhandle serving in the legislature. He was unseated in the 2010 general election by the Republican Jim Landtroop of Plainview in Hale County. In 2006, Heflin had defeated Landtroop by fewer than 225 votes. The city was named for land office commissioner Stephen Crosby. Crosbyton is located at 33°39′24″N 101°14′20″W / 33.65667°N 101.23889°W / 33.65667; -101.23889 . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.1 square miles , all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,874 people, 677 households, and 482 families residing in the city. The population density was 886.9 people per square mile . There were 781 housing units at an average density of 369.6 per square mile .
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