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Pulitzer Prize Winner
To Speak at Convention
Clark Mollenhoff, a Pulitzer
prize winning journalist, will be
the keynote speaker at the
Augustana College Student
Nominating Convention Thurs-day
at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel-
Gym.
Mollenhoff, who is
Washington bureau chief for the
Des Moines Register and
Tribune, started his journalistic
career with the Des Moines
paper in 1941. He graduated
from the Drake University Law
School in 1944 and became a
Washington correspondent in
1950.
In Washington, he gained a
reputation as a muckraker and
won 14 awards for journalism
between 1952 and 1973, in-cluding
the Pulitzer prize in 1958
for national reporting.
Mollenhoff momentarily lost
his status as a muckraker
between 1969 and 1970 when he
joined the Nixon staff as a
special counsel to the President.
As presidential ombudsman,
Mollenhoff was supposed to un-cover
problems in the White
House staff and institute correc-tions.
He left that position in 1970
and returned to investigative
reporting. He regained much of
his status as a muckraker
through his coverage of the
Watergate affair.
Mollenhoff's visit to
Augustana will coincide with two
events. The students' convention
Wednesday through Friday is an
annual event where students
choose candidates for student
council positions. Over 400
students are involved.
Mollenhoff also will be one of the
features of a political science day
Thursday sponsored by the
Augustana Union Board of
Governors, (UBG), Student
Development Board, for area
high school students.
Mollenhoff is sponsored by the
Augustana Student Association,
the Concerts-Lecture Com-mittee,
and the UBG Board of
Forums and Discussions.
Northlander's Jazz Echoes
The Era of the Big Band
By Jon Matthews
MIRROR Co-Editor
The musical echoes of
America's big band era
will soon be sounding at
Augie when the
Northlander's Jazz
Ensemble swings and
rocks through its annual
concert.
The free concert is
scheduled for 8:15 p.m.
Feb. 28, in Augustana's
Kresge Auditorium.
The group's director, Dr.
Harold Krueger of the
Music Department, noted
that the history of Augie's
stage band goes back at
least 15 years. At that time
the stage band was a
student-run group, playing
the sounds of the big band
for dances and boasting
quite an enthusiastic
following.
Krueger said that the
stage band was disbanded
at one point, but only to be
revived in 1968 with
himself as conductor. A se-cond
stage band has also
existed the past two years,
he added.
The instrumentation of
the Northlanders Jazz
Ensemble closely
resembles that of the
classic big band. Five sax-es,
five trumpets, five
trombones and a full
rhythm section belt out
the sound, with french
horns, flutes, and even
oboes added occasionally
on an experimental "lab
band" basis.
"We try to do a contem-porary
version of what the
big band era was all
about," stressed Krueger,
adding that "We use a lit-tle
bit bigger band and our
music is somewhat more
sophisticated than it was a
generation ago."
The director noted that
he felt that parts of the big
band type music which the
band plays can also be in-cluded
under the defini-tion
of jazz. "Many people
feel that the big bands
aren't jazz," revealed
Krueger, but he added
that he felt the im-provisations
and the struc-tures
of some of the
numbers should be
thought of as true jazz
music.
"We're finally getting
students in the group who
can play jazz," the director
stressed.
Education is strictly the
foremost goal of the group,
said Krueger, with fun
seemingly running a close
second for all involved.
"You have to remember
that a good 90 per cent of
high schools have stage
bands in their music
programs," said the
professor of brasswinds,
"and if music students are
going to direct, they have
to have this experience."
"If you're going to teach it,
you've almost have to have
been in a stage band," he
added.
Krueger stated that for a
long period, stage band
type outfits were looked
down upon in the formal
educational sense.
" Frankly," said the
director, "some people
were worried that these
bands would get too pop-ular,"
and therefore
overshadow other aspects
of music programs. But he
stressed that now stage
bands are becoming a
highly respected part of a
well-rounded music
program.
Groups such as Chicago
and Blood, Sweat and
Tears have numbers for
which big band
arrangements have been
written, Krueger stated,
noting that the members
of these jazz-rock groups
are accepted as being very
mature musicians who
have added a good deal of
sophisitication top the
rock scene.
In the upcoming
Northlanders concert,
Krueger has planned a
number which dates vback
to the 1930's, "to give the
audience a flavor" of how
the big bands really sound-ed.
The first half of the free
concert will feature all new
arrangements for big stage
bands, utilizing the bigger
and more sophisticated
sound of a modern stage
band. The second portion
of the Northlanders con-cert
will feature a jazz
combo of eight students
playing works scored for a
smaller sized group.
The last part of the con-cert
program, according to
Krueger, will feature works
all the famous Stan Ken-ton.
The numbers the
Northlanders will perform
will cover the entire
history of Kenton.
A featured soloist in the
concert will be Patsy Lar-son,
a senior who will per-form
on alto sax.