The Oregonian receives two Pulitzer prizes
By Gillian Flaccus
Associated Press Writer
PORTLAND — The Oregonian
won two Pulitzer prizes Monday, for
public service and feature writing,
bringing the newspaper’s Pulitzer
count to three in the past two years.
The public service award hon
ored coverage by a team of four re
porters that pointed out problems
within the federal Immigration and
Naturalization Service, triggered by
complaints from passengers de
tained by INS agents at Portland In
ternational Airport.
Tom Hallman Jr. won the feature
writing award for his four-part series
about a facially disfigured teenager.
Hundreds of Oregonian staff
crammed into the company’s con
ference room at noon Monday, wait
ing for the list of Pulitzer winners to
appear on an enlarged computer
screen as bottles of champagne
chilled in the background.
As the awards appeared on the
screen, Hallman’s father wiped tears
from his eyes as champagne bottles
popped. The award was particularly
sweet for Hallman, who has been
named a Pulitzer finalist three times,
but hadn’t won until Monday.
“I am a product of The Oregon
ian,” said Hallman, who started as
a copy boy changing reporters’ type
writer ribbons. “This is really where
I learned to be a reporter. Great work
doesn’t come in a vacuum. It comes
in an environment with freedom to
do the best and freedom to grow.”
Hallman’s series, called “The Boy
Behind the Mask,” documented 14
year-old Sam Lightner’s months
long ordeal as he underwent exten
sive and dangerous surgery to
remove a mass on his face.
The day the last article ran in the
newspaper, Sam suddenly fell into
a coma, from which he has since
awakened.
The INS stories — written by re
porters Richard Read, Julie Sulli
van, Kim Christensen and Brent
Walth, edited by Amanda Bennett
and editorialized by Rick Attig —
detailed abuses of power by the
agency, especially among immigra
tion officials in Portland.
The city had been dubbed “De
portland” by some Asian publica
tions because of reports of unfair
treatment of Japanese and other
travelers at Portland International
Airport. The Oregonian also discov
ered that immigrants seeking asy
lum in other states, including Cali
fornia, had been jailed for years
without being convicted of a crime.
The newspaper’s coverage result
ed in the early retirement of Oregon
INS director David Beebe and a call
for a review of INS policy.
“I really want to thank the sources.
It took a lot of courage to tell their sto
ries to us. Many had already been
through the mill with the INS,” said
Read, who won a Pulitzer for ex
planatory reporting in 1999. “It must
have been daunting for them to retell
their story to reporters.”
Bennett, who edited the stories,
said the Pulitzer validated The Ore
gonian’s reputation as a nationally
recognized publication.
“We didn’t say, it’s a Miami story,
it’s a New York story. We didn’t set
tle for it being a local story. We took
on a big national story, big national
players and big local players,” she
said. “We were speaking for people
who were outside the realm of the
courts, and who can help people
like that? Only a newspaper and the
people who speak for it. ”
Oregonian editor Sandra Rowe
said the INS coverage won because
the Pulitzer board saw the reporters
expanded a local story to a national
level. She also said the story won
because it created “real change” in
the INS.
“Clearly this was important to
this community and this paper was
ambitious enough to take it nation
al,” she said.
The Oregonian has a paid daily
circulation of 350,000 and 450,000
on Sunday.
Read, a member of the INS report
ing team, won a 1999 Pulitzer in ex
planatory journalism for a series
that traced a shipment of potatoes
from the fields of Eastern Oregon to
Asian markets to demonstrate eco
nomic globalization.
Hallman has also won the Ameri
can Society of Newspaper Editors
Award, the Ernie Pyle Award and
the Sigma Delta Chi award for “The
Boy Behind the Mask.”
“It is a pride and pleasure to be
editor of The Oregonian at this time
in our history,” Rowe said. “It is
phenomenal.”
Art
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gy degree, but those who knew her
artistic past asked her to try scientific
illustrating.
“I had kind of given up art before, but
being able to blend these two disciplines
has been kind of cool,” she said.
To create her illustrations, Dartt first
takes measurements of the artifacts she
uses as models, then sketches them.
She next uses a technique called stip
pling, which involves punching many
tiny holes through the sketch onto pa
per. The end result produces a shaded
effect.
“Journals usually don’t use photo
graphs because it’s difficult to see the
detail that can be seen in illustrations,”
she said.
Besides publications, Dartt said sci
entific illustrating is also used in the
archaeology field.
“People are needed on archaeology
sites to illustrate things that can’t be re
moved from the site,” she said. “There
are few archaeologists that seem to
have the skill.”
Although some of Dartt’s drawings
will soon be displayed in professional
publications, she said she has no plans
to stray from archaeology.
“Illustrating will be a great way to
supplement my income, but I want to
be an archaeologist,” she said.
Eliza Schmidkunz, marketing and
public relations coordinator for the
museum, said the high quality of the
display impresses her.
“What’s amazing is how many scien
tific illustrators live in Eugene,” she
said. “I think it has a lot to do with the
natural beauty of Oregon.”
Stockton
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Stockton sold pirated CD
ROMs with Adobe programs
such as Photoshop to some
University students and others,
using an alias on the Internet.
Adobe’s retail loss was estimat
ed to be $490,644.
Stockton will have to pay
$87,391.81 to Adobe to help
compensate for the loss, but he
will not have to pay any addi
tional fines.
Also during the raid on
Stockton’s apartment, investi
gators discovered that Stockton
had visited and downloaded
images from more than 100
pornographic Web sites, in
cluding ones that contained
child pornography. As part of
his sentencing, Stockton must
undergo a psychiatric evalua
tion to ensure he does not pose
a threat to children.
Until the evaluation is com
plete, Stockton is prohibited
from interacting with minors
unless approved by his parole
officers and the court, which
means he will have to discon
tinue some of his volunteer
work with his church.
Chief Judge Michael Hogan
of the U.S. District Court also
ruled that Stockton’s computer
may be inspected during his
three-year probation period.
The judge’s sentencing restricts
Stockton from using the Inter
net to download pornography.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean
Hoar said that Stockton agreed
to the mental health evaluation
in exchange for the prosecu
tion not bringing charges re
garding the child pornography
issue.
“Our concern is based on
what we saw,” Hoar said. “If
someone has a tendency to be a
predator to children, we want
to do what we can to protect
his access to children.”
Because Stockton had his
wisdom teeth pulled Friday, he
could not speak at his sentenc
ing. But his attorney, Mark
Weintraub, relayed his mes
sages to the court.
“He just wants the court to
know that he’s sorry,” Wein
traub said.
Resistance
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with people were civil.
While most people have sup
ported the efforts the tax resistors
are putting forth, some people dis
agreed with the idea of reducing
military spending, Weaver said,
mentioning one person whose busi
ness held military contracts.
“I love paying my taxes, this is a
great country, man,” one taxpayer
shouted sarcastically while enter
ing the post office.
At the Wayne Morse Free Speech
Plaza, located just outside the Lane
County Courthouse, the festivities
were more interactive and enter
tainment-oriented.
Activities included a penny-poll,
where people could take 10 pen
nies and place them into jars sym
bolizing where they would most
like their tax dollars to go, and the
opportunity to throw bean-bags la
beled with dollar signs into the
“Military Bottomless Pit.”
The game involved throwing the
bean-bags at a wheel partitioned
into five military spending areas
the protestors highly opposed:
School of the Americas, nuclear
weapons, arms exports, cost over
runs, chemical weapons and “Plan
Colombia.”
“It’s the bottomless pit of military
spending,” said Rob Castleberry,
who recently became involved
with tax resistance. “Throw your
money away here, you won’t have
another chance until next year.”
The National War Tax Resistance
Coordinating Committee organized
several local, state and national
protests on tax day this year. In ad’
dition to merely protesting, Mili
tary Tax Resistance of Lane County
was able donate $1,000 to a variety
of peace-focused groups that in
cluded Cascadia Forest Defenders,
Oregon PeaceWorks, the National
Peace Tax Fund and School of the
Americas Watch. The latter is a
group that works to close the Army
School of the Americas, which op
ponents argue is functioning as a
training ground for international
terrorism.
Some people at the events urged
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resistance.
“We cannot, in good conscience,
pay for war,” said Mary Loehr, co
ordinator of the National War Tax
Resistance Coordinating Commit
tee. “We are outraged at how the
U.S. government is determining its
priorities, and we encourage others
to consider refusing to pay for some
or all of their federal taxes. We will
take that money and give it to
groups that are supporting life, not
death.” -
Inside the post office, Eugene res
ident Mike Davenport waited pa
tiently to part with his money.
“Some of this money goes to
good programs,” he said. “I’d like to
see more social services and educa
tion funding, less B2 Bombers, Star
Wars, all that crap serves no pur
pose — it’s wasted money.”
Sue Barnhart of Eugene is active
ly involved with Military Tax Resis
tance of Lane County and has been
a tax resistor for many years.
“If all my tax money was going to
serve people and work for peace
and justice, I would be happy to
pay,” Barnhart said. “But since so
much of it goes for killing and war,
my conscience tells me I must re
sist.”
Now that Barnhart has adopted a
child, the tax credit she receives al
lows her avoid taxation. Barnhart
now donates part of the money she
keeps from that credit to programs
promoting peace.
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