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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — What did you read over the summer?
For Sierra Nevada College's freshman, the answer should be “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time.”
The Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin bestseller is assigned reading for SNC's faculty, staff and incoming freshmen. The book dissects Mortenson's trip to Pakistan in 1993 and a failed attempt to climb the daunting K2 peak, the world's second-highest mountain. While regaining his health after the failed climb in a Pakistani village, Mortenson comes to love the culture and feels the need to give back, said Betts Markle, SNC library director.
He is compelled to build schools in the village and eventually in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region of the Karakorum Mountains.
Lynne Gillette, SNC provost, said the book and the idea of a group reading selection represents SNC's goals.
“The common reading selection encompasses the liberal arts education values of Sierra Nevada College with an inspirational story that will broaden the student's world and begin the process of understanding their own unique potential to affect meaningful change,” Gillette said in a press release. Copies of the book, available at the campus bookstore for purchase, are provided to SNC staff and faculty for free.
Markle said freshmen orientation groups will discuss the book with a faculty member in the coming months before classes begin.
To add to the knowledge students will gain from the book, Markle said the college is in the process of booking speakers in advance of two events this fall. Ruth Anne Kocour, an author, photographer and Himalayan mountaineer, is scheduled to speak at the college Aug. 25.
Then, at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, the Incline Village Library is scheduled to host community discussion of the book. The event is free.
The next day Mortenson is scheduled to speak as a guest of the Squaw Valley Institute at 2 and 7:30 p.m. inside the grand ballroom of the Hyatt Regency in Incline. Tickets are sold out for the late lecture, but are available for the first at http://squawvalleyinstitute.org/events/index.html.
For Sierra Nevada College's freshman, the answer should be “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time.”
The Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin bestseller is assigned reading for SNC's faculty, staff and incoming freshmen. The book dissects Mortenson's trip to Pakistan in 1993 and a failed attempt to climb the daunting K2 peak, the world's second-highest mountain. While regaining his health after the failed climb in a Pakistani village, Mortenson comes to love the culture and feels the need to give back, said Betts Markle, SNC library director.
He is compelled to build schools in the village and eventually in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region of the Karakorum Mountains.
Lynne Gillette, SNC provost, said the book and the idea of a group reading selection represents SNC's goals.
“The common reading selection encompasses the liberal arts education values of Sierra Nevada College with an inspirational story that will broaden the student's world and begin the process of understanding their own unique potential to affect meaningful change,” Gillette said in a press release. Copies of the book, available at the campus bookstore for purchase, are provided to SNC staff and faculty for free.
Markle said freshmen orientation groups will discuss the book with a faculty member in the coming months before classes begin.
To add to the knowledge students will gain from the book, Markle said the college is in the process of booking speakers in advance of two events this fall. Ruth Anne Kocour, an author, photographer and Himalayan mountaineer, is scheduled to speak at the college Aug. 25.
Then, at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, the Incline Village Library is scheduled to host community discussion of the book. The event is free.
The next day Mortenson is scheduled to speak as a guest of the Squaw Valley Institute at 2 and 7:30 p.m. inside the grand ballroom of the Hyatt Regency in Incline. Tickets are sold out for the late lecture, but are available for the first at http://squawvalleyinstitute.org/events/index.html.
