Eagle’s Eye Newspaper

News of potential impending layoffs hit the e-mail inboxes of Sierra Nevada University faculty members April 30, in a letter from SNU president, Dr. Rob Valli. In it, he expressed that the combined financial effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, along with general hardships that have been threatening higher education, require SNU to reconsider eliminating faculty...

On April 22, Sierra Nevada University students hosted the first annual SNU Earth Day Festival. The event was organized by the SNU Climate Alliance and Social Justice Clubs, as well as the SNU Freeride Club and faculty sponsors. The festival featured numerous guest appearances, such as a land acknowledgement from a Paiute Elder, a guided...

Sierra Nevada University announced that its 51st annual commencement will be held in-person on May 15. Hosted on Patterson Lawn, weather permitting, students will be able to have up to two guests watch them graduate in a socially distanced setting. Dean of Students Will Hoida wrote in an e-mail interview that this year’s commencement will...

“It’s the books I’ve read, the friendships I have had, the relationships that have come and gone, the jobs, the heartaches. Life experience, if you are open to it, makes for a richer human being. So, when assignments come your way, you have this wealth of information that you have chewed on and digested and...

Students pitching tents, and practicing knots, going to and from their next adventure…daily interactions with familiar faces telling inspiring stories. This summer camp-like scene is not far from the realities of many Sierra Nevada University students’ first experience at the school. But, like most things since the coronavirus pandemic hit in March of last year,...

Author Aimee Nezhukumatathil will join a storied history at Sierra Nevada University, as the featured “common read” author for 2021, with her acclaimed novel “World of Wonders.” She will also headline a Writers in the Woods reading and workshop Sept. 24-25. Her New York Times best-selling book is an exciting collection of non-fiction creative essays...

On March 3, Sierra Nevada University held its fifteenth Business Pitch Competition. There were 22 ideas pitched, and SNU senior Madalyn Johnson won first prize for her innovative and sustainable GPS-enabled ski tracking device called GP-SKI. Johnson is 21 years old and originally from Michigan. She plans to graduate from SNU this spring. Her GP-SKI...

On Wednesday, March 31, I presented my senior thesis with Sierra Nevada University’s BFA Creative Writing students preparing to graduate this May. While the Zoom presentation was only an hour, the readings by the four of us represented a writing and editing process that spanned over the last few years. Chair of the Humanities Department,...

Ryan Bahlman, better known as RYNo, is a local artist in Incline Village. Being born and raised in Incline Village, it is fitting that his newest project The Hive Collection is also in Incline Village. RYNo has been creating art his whole life. His mother is an artist and he grew up receiving art supplies...

Robert “Bud” Keene is a five-time Olympic winning coach and former national head coach of the United States, China, and New Zealand. He has coached multiple gold, silver, and bronze medal winners, as well as winners of the XGAMES, US Grand Prix, Vans Triple Crown Series, USCSA Nationals, and Dew Tour. Now he will be...