Our Food Choices and Why They Matter
I recently learned of the psychological condition named by Dr. Steven Bratman called “Orthorexia Nervosa,” which means “an unhealthy obsession with healthy food,” in a book written by journalist and...
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Shop Smart to Reduce Waste
America’s food obsession is super-sizing our landfills. Our dependence on fossil fuels for growing and packaging food creates more garbage than we know what to do with. Whether or not we can see the...
View ArticleGreen Council Implements Compost Project
Green Council is Sierra Nevada College’s community for environmental activism. Open to everyone on campus, the council aims to bring together students who are interested in learning about and living in...
View ArticleCollege Cuisine
Living in a vacation destination can be hard for one to save money amongst some of Tahoe’s inflated living expenses. For a college student this challenge is an even greater battle. When it comes to...
View ArticleINTD Brings Variety to Students’ Learning Lives
Sierra Nevada College is unique in its flexibility with majors. An interdisciplinary studies major at SNC constitutes 22 different combinations of fields of study. These options are not limited either:...
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SNC Benefactor Nelson Funds Scholars
Last week, the first annual Lin M. Nelson Award for Leadership & Civic Engage-ment scholarships were awarded to SNC interdisciplinary students Celine Holland and Weston Park. This new scholarship...
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Music. Brews. Mountains. Trash.
Bluegrass tunes rang through Squaw Valley on April 4-6 as the WinterWonderGrass festival took to Tahoe for a weekend of music. But as the good times unfolded during the festival, Waste Free Earth was...
View ArticleSki business major a unique SNC offering
Students who live for winter snow and want to pursue a profession that aligns with their passion have a perfect major in the ski business resort management program at Sierra Nevada College. “I have...
View ArticleWriters share first kisses during SNC literary event
Sierra Nevada College’s annual literary speaker series Writers in the Woods started Sept. 7 with readings from The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers, the book chosen as the college’s common read for...
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INTD student uses projects for positive change
Sharing funny stories with international students over her mother’s tacos and learning how to write her name in foreign languages is how senior Vanessa Dunn remembers her childhood growing up in...
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Writers in the Woods: Lidia Yuknavitch
Writer Lidia Yuknavitch lives her life in the open, sharing the full range of her experiences through her work. Lidia Yuknavitch She spoke to Sierra Nevada College students and community members at 7...
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SNC students serve local non-profits
Sierra Nevada College students from this semester’s service learning course have been hard at work volunteering in the greater Lake Tahoe community. Service learning is unique to the interdisciplinary...
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SNC writing club, faculty participate in poetry reading
On Sept. 29, Sierra Nevada College’s Creative Writing Club made a trip down to Reno to attend a poetry reading put on by 100 Thousand Poets for Change, partnered with Planned Parenthood and the...
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Project MANA fills hunger need in North Shore
Lake Tahoe’s reputation as an enclave for the wealthy hides the fact that many in the basin struggle to afford the basics: Food and shelter. Project MANA, a volunteer-run food-pantry non-project,...
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You can’t buy love, but you can adopt
They say you never work a day in your life if you are doing what you love. That’s how I felt this semester while working on my senior project, a short documentary video series called “Rescue Matters”,...
View ArticleThe manmade misfortune of the ski industry
While several resorts in Colorado kicked off their ski seasons with above average snowfall, ski areas around the Tahoe Basin faced a dry fall season, relying heavily on snowmaking operations to stay in...
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SNC annual Africa trip offered in May
Whether it’s seeing penguins on Boulder Beach, or driving right up next to herds of elephants, giraffes, and cheetahs in Kruger National Park, Justin Spees and Steve Elsworth have done it all while...
View ArticleSNC fall semester to feature two-week plus 12-week academic calendar
Beginning in fall semester, Sierra Nevada College will operate a modified academic calendar, comprised of a two-week intensive session followed by a 12-week traditional semester. The college’s provost...
View ArticlePrimatologist Jane Goodall speaks at SNC
The room is buzzing. The petite 85-year-old slips into the room, clothed in a simple black turtleneck, with a monarch butterfly print shawl wrapped around her shoulders. The crowd falls silent as Dr....
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SNC psych students display work at research fair
Yulisa Mendez Yulisa Mendez “My project is called On Empathy Gaps: The Impact of Psychological Stress on Perspective-taking. What got me interested in doing the study was this cognitive bias I learned...
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