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News and Publications of Notre Dame de Sion

Sion Student Media

News and Publications of Notre Dame de Sion

Sion Student Media

Katy Zahner, Multi-media editor and reporter

Position: Multi-media editor and reporter

Favorite TV Show: Breaking Bad

Favorite Pastime: Painting/bug collecting

Guilty Pleasure: frequent teeth brushing because I have this fear that my teeth will look like corn kernels like meth heads teeth

Favorite Quote: “It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.”―J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye

 

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SHAILENE WOODLEY and THEO JAMES star in DIVERGENT

“Divergent”: Read Before Watching

Katy Zahner, Multimedia Editor Mar 21, 2014

If “The Host” and “The Hunger Games” had a baby, “Divergent” would be the result. A dystopian nation divided plus mind controlling serums and governmental corruption; “Divergent” encompasses...

U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (LIAM NEESON) and passenger Jen Summers (JULIANNE MOORE) in “Non-Stop”, a suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air.

“Non-Stop” Thrills at 40,000 Feet

Katy Zahner, Multimedia Editor Feb 28, 2014

Flying. A plane full of strangers packed together for a long transatlantic flight to London. One air marshal with a history of problems and a series of text messages that sends this plane of 150 passengers...

Josh Brolin is Frank and Kate Winslet is Adele in LABOR DAY Written for the Screen and Directed by Jason Reitman to be released by Paramount Pictures and Indian Paintbrush.

Labor Day

Katy Zahner, Multimedia Editor Jan 31, 2014

One weekend was all it took for desperately lonely Adele to fall in love with Frank the fugitive. Set in a sleepy, 1987 Massachusetts town, “Labor Day” is a movie about a heart broken mother and her...

MARTIN FREEMAN as Bilbo and JOHN CALLEN as Oin in the fantasy adventure "THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG," a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, released by Warner Bros. Pictures and MGM.

Special Effects Rule in Smaug’s Desolation

Katy Zahner, Multimedia Editor Dec 14, 2013

Wizards, orcs, elves, dwarves, one hobbit and a fire breathing dragon all make an appearance in the second movie of “The Hobbit” trilogy; “The Desolation Of Smaug.” In this sequel, Thorin,...

The "Book Thief" Will Steal Your Heart

The “Book Thief” Will Steal Your Heart

Katy Zahner, Multimedia Editor Nov 25, 2013

The tears continued to roll down my cheeks as the credits rolled up the screen. This powerful visual recreation based on the bestseller “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak, left everyone paralyzed in...

Photo Courtesy Summit Entertainment

Sci-Fi “Ender’s Game” is a Shooting Star

Katy Zahner, Multimedia Editor Oct 31, 2013

In a futuristic version of the world, the “International Military” is training young boys and girls to come up with a strategy to defend the human race and stop the impending alien attack before it...

Growing Up in Kansas City

Growing Up in Kansas City

Katy Zahner, Multimedia Editor Sep 24, 2013

Growing up in metropolitan Kansas City, the middle of the country, has both ups and downs. Sion girls reflect on what they love about the city; the location in which many have spent their entire life....

Gatsby is Golden

Gatsby is Golden

Katy Zahner, Reporter May 10, 2013

Long Island. Extravagant parties, girls with short dresses and even shorter hair, a skyrocketing stock market, old money, new money, drugs, bootlegging, flappers, fast cars, massive mansions and greed....

Sci-Fi King Presents "The Host"

Sci-Fi King Presents “The Host”

Katy Zahner, Reporter Mar 28, 2013

When the earth is taken over by a parasitic alien species and human bodies are used as hosts for these extraterrestrial souls, the aliens face only one problem. Humans have souls, too. And sometimes, the...

The Life of Pi Day

The Life of Pi Day

Katy Zahner, Reporter Mar 25, 2013

On March 14, otherwise written 3/14 (3.14), Pi Day is celebrated in math classes world-wide. Pi day consists of students bringing in a variety of circle shaped foods to honor the ratio of the circumference...

Julie Steilen All-Metro Star

Julie Steilen All-Metro Star

Katy Zahner, Reporter Mar 15, 2013

This year, sophomore Julie Steilen was recognized as All-Metro for cross country. “Before freshman year, I had never run distance in my life,” Steilen said. Running cross country is a year-round...

Truth about American Immigration

Truth about American Immigration

Katy Zahner, Reporter Mar 2, 2013

“Here, everybody has shoes,” a migrant worker told Gretchen Green, when asked the biggest difference between life in the United States and Mexico. Two women, Tina Histand and Gretchen Green visited...

Tragedy of Twinkies

Tragedy of Twinkies

Katy Zahner, Reporter Feb 20, 2013

If you were to make a list of “Things that would survive a nuclear war,” Hostess Twinkies could be at the very top, right up there with cockroaches. So is it possible that the shelf life for the preservative-packed...

Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel star in Relativity Media´s "Safe Haven."

‘Safe Haven’ Is A Romantic Masterpiece

Katy Zahner, Reporter Feb 15, 2013

Lying on a warm sandy beach, slow dancing to romantic music in an abandoned store, and kissing in the pouring rain. As two broken people meet and forge a relationship, imperfection is made perfect in the...

Breaking Dawn Too Much

Katy Zahner, Reporter Nov 17, 2012

Summit Entertainment reached the base of the mountain with the latest and thankfully the last movie of the Twilight Saga. With at least seven graphic decapitation scenes, nauseating love scenes between...

Not Taken with “Taken 2”

Katy Zahner, Reporter Oct 5, 2012

If the first “Taken” movie was every father’s worst nightmare, then the sequel, “Taken 2” could be the second worst thing that a father could imagine. But this time it’s an unrealistic nightmare. In...

Google Takes on KC

Katy Zahner, Reporter Sep 28, 2012

Kansas City is known for its barbeque and its historical jazz roots. The city has the Nelson Atkin’s Museum of Art, and is famous as the city of fountains. Now, Kansas City will be known for something...

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