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Lisa Deaderick: Bio
by Lisa Deaderick
US / Africa Energy Ministers Conference

Tucson, AZ •• Dec. 9, 1999 •• SolarQuest® iNet News Service •• My name is Lisa Deaderick and I am originally from San Diego, California.
I am currently a junior majoring in journalism at Bethune-Cookman College as well as editor-in-chief of the campus publication.
I spent this summer as a volunteer intern at a local paper back home and had the opportunity of working with the news editor and entertainment editor. I've also had bylines and my first front page story printed this summer in the paper.
With this being my first year as print journalism major, I am very exciting about working with everyone on the iNet team.
I am interested in Africa as a whole and would like to learn all I can about the entire continent as they deal with energy and business issues that undoubtedly affect their economic and technological growth.


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City Shutters Porno Palace
by Lisa B. Deaderick
(taken from front page of The Star-News, San Diego, Ca 7/17/99)


Walt Disney cartoons at an XXX-rated movie theater? "It was probably used in case of a raid," said Vice Mayor Ron Morrison jokingly when he found the authentic 1971 reel in the old projection room of the Pussycat Theatre in National City.
The city’s painstaking efforts to close down all pornography establishments in town were fulfilled last week when Mayor George Waters locked up the infamous theater with a chain and padlock.
With the pornography market over-saturated with videos, cable channels, and Web sites, the theater is no longer profitable, said Morrison. Which is part of the reason the city was able to buy the theater’s property and the business from the owners. The theater completed the initial filing for bankruptcy, but didn’t make it to a full filing because of the city’s acquisition. This "litter box" went for a cool $1.066 million.
A small price to pay when the big picture is all about redevelopment plans for this segment of National City Boulevard, located a little more than a block north of City Hall and the police station. There have been proposals in the works for an ice skating rink like the one in University Towne Centre or an education center for either San Diego State University, Southwestern College, University of California at San Diego or University of San Diego.
SDSU and Southwestern College have already been promised an extension site, but whether they will acquire the former theater’s property is still up in the air.
The property has seen its share of changes. The theater, first known as the Bush Theatre, opened in February 1928 as the National Theatre. With its first show being Victor Hugo’s "Les Miserables," the theater was going to hopefully become the pride of the city.
In 1950, it became known as the Aboline Theater and played a lot of westerns and science fiction movies, and programs for children. The early 1960s gave way to another name change, the Paris Theater. This new theater presented entertainment for adults in the likes of movies such as "To Kill A Mockingbird." The late ‘60s produced the Pussycat Theatre which switched over into the X-rated format that has been successful until recently.
Another victory in the city’s stance against pornography businesses in the community was against Chuck’s Bookstore in 1993. That case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to Morrison. The city won and was able to close it on the grounds that it was too close to another adult establishment. The Pussycat Theatre was right across the street.
"I’ve been living here since ’45 and I’ve seen a lot of changes," said Mable Louise Attaway, former employee of the Aboline Theater. Referring to the Pussycat Theatre’s permanent closure, Attaway said, "It was really a stain on the city that I had taken to be my hometown."

Walter Payton’s Death Overlooked By Media
by Lisa B. Deaderick
(editorial piece from The Voice of the Wildcats, Bethune-Cookman College newspaper 11/99)


Walter "Sweetness" Payton, running back for the Chicago Bears until 1987, died on November 1 at age 45 from a rare liver disease known as primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).
Chances are that most people were unaware of his death. What amazes me is that it went almost unnoticed in comparison with that of Payne Stewart. While not downplaying the passing of Stewart, because the passing of two sports greats is quite a loss, but I can’t help wondering why we didn’t hear more about it on the news.
The extended coverage of Stewart’s passing in the media was borderline Columbine-excessive. So why wasn’t the same done for an NFL Hall of Famer? I’d hate to assume that in 1999 it’s because of the most obvious visual difference between the two men…color. I know, it’s a touchy subject. And people always get aggravated when race is brought into an issue like this one. But I can’t help feeling a twinge of bitterness when looking for information about Payton on Yahoo! and finding less than 50 sites, while there were close to 200 on Stewart.
There were no extravagant leading front page stories in the major papers, no spotlight stories on any 60 Minutes, 20/20, Dateline--esque news magazine programs, and no "Top Story" priority on the evening news. Was it really because Payton was black and Stewart was white?
Maybe we should give the media the benefit of the doubt and attribute it to the way Stewart died, the tragic Learjet crash. Or the fact that there were five people killed on that fateful day. Or because he lived right here in Florida. I guess hat makes it a little bit better. On the plus side, the entire introduction and half-time segment on Monday Night Football was dedicated to recognizing Payton. And when talking to my father back home (in California), he said that the coverage was pretty extensive on the local news and that it made the front page of the newspaper. So maybe it’s just where we’re located, the city or state we’re in. I’m sure it was a much bigger deal in Chicago. Yea, maybe that’s it. Then again, maybe it’s not.


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