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TUCSON, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1981 THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR SECTION A PAGE NINE I Star's Hallas and Lowe win Pulitzer for Mason disclosures Former Star Photo Editor Jack Dykinga, a Tucson resident, and Green Valley's Robert Lasch are past Pulitzer winners, but Dykinga won his with the Chicago Sun-Times, and Lasch won his with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Lowe, 27, was born and grew up in Altadena, Calif. He graduated from Stanford University and worked briefly for the Arizona Republic and Phoenix Gazette before coming to The Star 4j years ago. Hallas, 45, a veteran reporter, grew up in Birmingham, and attended Michigan State University and Wayne State University.

After working for United Press International, he joined the Detroit News in 1968. He came to The Star 10 years later. "Our stories were a long-overdue challenge to the sacred-cow status of the University of Arizona and a cavalier attitude reprehensible in any public institution," Lowe said. "Part of a newspaper's responsibility to ferret out the truth. Another part is to expose the outrageous lie." The Mason stories earned the pair an award from the Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc.

earlier this month. Tucson television crews and staffers from the competing Tucson Citizen stopped by the Star newsroom yesterday afternoon to salute the two. Phone calls kept coming in as plans were made for an evening celebration, and an entire newsroom basked in the reflected glory of Lowe's and Hallas' achievement in capturing the newspaper world's equivalent of the Academy Award. tor Frank Johnson and City Editor Jon Kamman with providing guidance and encouragement throughout the project. "They were invaluable," Lowe said.

"How very gratifying it is to have our work recognized at such a distinguished level," said Kamman. "Bob and Clark are wholly deserving of the honor. 1 "Their prize reaffirms what we thought throughout the investigation: We were doing our job and doing it well. The public deserves sports programs that follow the rules. "I have great personal affection for the UA and have every confidence that our exposure of some of its problems will strengthen it in the long run." Kamman paid tribute to The Star's attorney, Michael Lacagnina, for helping to refine the complicated legal problems involved in writing and printing the stories.

In an impromptu newsroom speech yesterday, Lowe also thanked his co-workers for providing support when he and Hallas were being painted as villains by many in the community. Hallas who was at the County Recorder's Office checking records when word of the honor first leaked guessed that the real lasting value of the award might be to help remind editors and reporters that good journalism isn't restricted to America's media capitals. The Star's Pulitzer Prize marks only the second time the prestigious award has made its way to Arizona. In 1951, Arizona Republic cartoonist Reginald Manning picked up the honor for his work. (Continued from Page One) offices.

Authorities later arrested a man who admitted committing the offenses. But as Hallas and Lowe continued to follow their leads and demand straight answers to tough questions, it became more and more apparent that something was amiss in the world of the Wildcats. Reports of possible impropriety, detailed in some 30 stories, accumulated like a small mountain on the shoulders of UA officials: Spending athletic-recruiting money on non-recruits. Use of false names on football travel documents. Coaches being reimbursed for trips never taken.

Finally the pressure was too much. On April 7 of last year, UA officials announced that Mason had resigned. In a lawsuit filed against the UA earlier this month, Mason denied that he resigned. He charged that filing false expense vouchers is a way of life for college football coaches and that he was dismissed without a hearing. He faces trial on the criminal charges May 8.

Pulitzer prizes are administered by Columbia University. They are awarded by a special panel of publishers and editors from various newspapers throughout the nation, whose selections are ratified by a board of trustees. The Star's series was based on hundreds of hours of interviews and extensive use of a variety of public documents, ranging from expense vouchers to telephone records. Lowe and Hallas both credited Managing Edi Charlotte Observer, N.Y. Times cited Star newsroom uncorks bubbly to hail 'big one' Bob Lowe, above left, gets a hand from reporter Kevin O'Brien in pouring champagne for colleagues already more than a little heady.

At right, Clark Hallas basks in congratulations from his wife, Star entertainment editor Barbara Griffin. (Star photos by Len Lahman, above, and Alan Berner) il 1 i i' fiVt I. Posthumous prize given in fiction NEW YORK (AP) The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service, and the New York Times was cited for national reporting and commentary as the 65th Pulitzer Prizes in journalism were announced yesterday. The Longview (Wash.) Daily News, with a circulation of 27,500, received a Pulitzer in local reporting for its coverage of the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980.

The Observer was cited for its series "Brown Lung: A Case of Deadly Neglect," dealing with the cotton dust breathed by more than 100,000 textile workers in the Carolinas. Times reporter John M. Crewdson, Houston correspondent for the newspaper, won for more than 40 articles on illegal aliens and immigration problems. Dave Anderson of The Times was cited for his sports columns. The Miami Herald won the award for international reporting for dispatches by Shirley Christian from Central America.

The award for cartooning went to Mike Peters of the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News and for spot news photography to Larry C. Price of the Fort Worth (Texas) Star Telegram for photographs from Liberia. The award for feature writing went to Janet Cooke of the Washington Post for her article about an 8-year-old heroin addict. The Pulitzer for criticism was awarded to Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Star for his book reviews. The feature photography award went to Taro M.

Yamasaki of the Detroit Free Press for his pictures of Jackson State Prison in Michigan. No Pulitzer was awarded for editorial writing. The Pulitzer Prizes were founded by the late Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the old New York World. They have been awarded since 1917 by Columbia University on recommendation of an advisory board. Except for the public-service category, in which the winner gets a gold medal, the awards carry a prize of $1,000 each.

The Pulitzer jury said the Observer "focused its editorial resources to expose and draw public attention to a killer invisible cotton dust breathed by 115,000 textile workers every day in the Carolinas." Last February, the newspaper published 22 articles and eight editorials detailing the failure of public officials, businessmen and physicians to deal with brown lung. The 18-member staff of the Longview paper was praised for its eight weeks of coverage of the volcanic eruptions that began last May 18. In two weeks, the staff produced more than 400 stories. Crewdson, who walked across the Mexican desert at night with immigrant smugglers, was applauded by the jury, which said that the re porter's investigation prompted the Justice Department to begin its own review of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Anderson was cited for his column, which appeared four times a week in The Times.

Christian won for her reports on what the jury termed "the human stories the peasant, the soldier, the landowner" in Central America. Price won his award for his photographs of the aftermath of the military coup in Liberia last April. He was the only U.S. photographer to witness the firing-squad execution of 13 members of the ousted regime. Yamasaki's award for feature photography was based on an investigation in which he found that prison inmates carried knives, had access to drugs and frightened corrections officers out of enforcing prison regulations.

"Jimmy's World," which won the Pulitzer for Cooke, "was met by a wave of shock and disbelief," the jury said. But social workers and school- teachers confirmed that heroin was being used by others of the boy's age. Peters was cited for editorial cartoons, one of which was a picture of a handgun and a package of saccharin. "This killed 9,000 Americans last year," read one section of the caption. "This killed four white rats," it said of the saccharin.

"Can you guess which one's been damned?" Yardley was cited for more than 50 reviews of a broad range of fiction and non-fiction. College, Columbia University. Massie's "Peter the Great" studied the Russian monarch's fascination with western Europe and its influences. The Irvington, N.Y., writer also is the author of "Nicholas and Alexandra." Schuyler's "The Morning of the Poem," published by Farrar, Strauss Giroux, is his eighth book and presents 26 poems focusing primarily on human relationships. More than half the book is the title poem, an autobiographical fable about the New York author's quest for inspiration.

Schorske's "Fin-de-Siecle Vienna" is a study of the Austrian city at the end of the 19th century. The book shows the influences of modern art and thought on the political upheavals and shifts in social power at that time. Schorske, a New York City native who attended Columbia and Harvard, is a history professor at Princeton University. Order early. Send the FTD FLOWER SHOPS NEW YORK "A Confederacy of Dunces," by the late John Kennedy Toole, was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

Beth Henley's "Crime of the Heart" was awarded the prize in drama. The prizes were announced yesterday by Columbia University President Michael I. Sovern. The history prize went to Lawrence A. Cremin's "American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876." The biography award went to Robert K.

Massie for "Peter the Great: His Life and World." James Schuyler captured the poetry prize for "The Morning of the Poem." The award in general non-fiction went to Carl E. Schorske for "Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture." On the recommendation of the nominating jury, no prize for a distinguished musical composition by an American. The last time a prize in music was not awarded was 1965. Toole, who wrote "A Confederacy of Dunces" in the 1960s and committed suicide at 32 in 1969, was the first posthumous Pultizer winner in fiction. His comic novel, set in his native New Orleans, was rejected by many publishers until his mother, Thelma D.

Toole, got novelist Walker Percy to read it. Percy then persuaded the Lousiana State University Press to publish the book last year. Toole taught at Hunter College in New York City, the University of Southwestern Louisiana and Dominican College in New Orleans. Henley, 28, an author-actress born in Mississippi and now living in Los Angeles, previewed her "Crimes of the Heart" in regional theaters in Louisville, St. Louis, Baltimore and Los Gatos, before it ran for five weeks off-Broadway this past winter.

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