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Jason Jordan (Left) and Eric Vroonland (Right) brought Odis Day
and the Nights to the Texas Hall of Fame night
By Shea Wiggins
The Battalion
T wo Texas A&M students have
proven that it is possible to make
good grades and make good
money at the same time.
Jason Jordan, a senior marketing
major, and Eric Vroonland, a senior
finance major, have started their own
company while finishing school.
The two friends have started J.V.
Productions, a company that will bring
popular acts to Bryan-College Station.
Jordan and Vroonland met while
working with the Interfraternity
Council (IFC). They planned a Jack
Ingram concert for the IFC in the Spring
and realized there was money in orga
nizing events.
“We saw that had we had a knack for
selling our ideas to students and spon
sors,” Jordan said.
Vroonland said they were encour
aged by peers and mentors.
“It was a hit-or-miss idea,”
Vroonland said. "We made calls to feel
out opportunities and explore our
options. We were informed by big-name
talent agencies that we had serious
potential in the College Station market.
It soon became our mission to provide a
quality show, from start to finish, that a
college student can afford.”
Both students took out short-term
loans in order to start the company. They
said they plan to pay back the loans with
profits generated by the concerts.
Vroonland said they were lucky to
have marketing and finance skills to
work with.
“We are able to talk to the bands,
sponsors and students to sell the con
certs, as well as handle the books,
expenses and accounts receivable,”
Vroonland said. “We work well together.”
Jordan finds the managers of the
bands through weekly publications and
contacts them to schedule events.
Jordan and Vroonland brought Odis
Day and the Nights to the Texas Hall of
Fame Thursday for the IFC Rush Kickoff
Party. The young entrepreneurs have
scheduled other popular acts through
their company to come to College
Station later this setnester.
The students say they will take prof
its from these concerts and invest them
back into the company in order to
recruit more popular performers, such
as James Taylor or John Mellencamp.
Jordan said he plans to stay with this
business if it can grow and prosper.
“We would like to speak to big enter
tainers for the spring shows and scout
out other towns like Nacodoches and
Lubbock,” Jordan said. “We need to get
a feel for the market.”
Vroonland said the experience as a
business owner will be beneficial.
“I am going to pursue this business
as long as it is my best opportunity,”
Vroonland said. “At worst, I will move on
to other options and make this project a
huge asset to my resume.”
Jordan discussed his plans with
Clayton Williams, former student and
Texas entrepreneur, last week at the
MSC Fall Leadership Conference.
“Mr. Williams said self employment
is the quickest way to happiness
because it frees you from the monotony
of a job, and it pays for what you are
worth,” Jordan said. “This is not possi
ble if you are working for someone. If
our expansion pans out, I believe I can
be self employed. I am very interested
in franchising businesses.”
Both students said leadership skills
and club activities at A&M have pre
pared them for organizing a small
business.
They say activities such as share
holders meetings and document prepa
ration are familiar to them because of
their involvement at A&M. Vroonland
said A&M has given him the proper
training for his work with the company
they have started.
“Professors at A&M have encour
aged and applauded our entrepreneur
ial spirit,” Vroonland said. “I have
learned to take everything I know out of
the classroom and apply it to the real
world, and then I take everything I
know from the real world and apply it
to the classroom.”
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The Batt alion
ina Schlieske admires kd
Lang for the way she takes
care of her voice, and in the
£xas leg of her band’s tour
found the country, Schlieske’s
se voice sounds like it could
ome taking care of its own.
haven’t mastered that yet,”
aid.
return for losing her voice,
jeske and her band, Tina and
-side Movement have been
jng exposure in unchartered
lories, including the Dixie
tre in Bryan tonight,
hlieske, bassist Jeremy
b, guitarist Patrik Tanner
percussionist Laura
nson create a combination
Ptmlful blues and rock with
that could be categorized
the post-modern feminist
of rock, which has invaded
op 40 charts over the past
ears.
hlieske said her musical
nces stem from the soul of
a Franklin and Billie Holliday,
e also said she also admires
rrrrl” rockers, the women of
ho are not afraid to express
“It’s cool when people let
themselves get pissed off about
things, especially since women
are taught to be polite and
quiet,” she said. “I like to see
Tina Schlieske
angry women.
In the early ’80s, Tina and her
brother gathered some friends
and began to play in local clubs.
“I don’t know if you could call it
music,” she said. “It was during
the punk scene when anyone
could pick up a guitar and play.”
The band eventually evolved,
acquiring members with a profes
sional interest in music.
Afterwards, the B-Sides
became a permanent fixture in
the band, creating enough soul to
back up Schlieske’s passionate
style of singing,
Schlieske said little has
changed since the band signed
with Elektra, aside from traveling
in new parts of the country.
“It’s pretty much the same as
always,” she said. “We still get in
our van and play.”
The band’s live performances
have been known to be a memo
rable experience for the audience.
Tina and the B-Side Movement
has been dubbed the best “bar
band” in the country.
Schlieske said the band’s per
formances carry an intensity that
gets lost on a recorded album.
“I don’t want to do something
unless it means something,” she
said. “And I guess that energy goes
off stage and into the audience.”
Schlieske said the passion that
generates energetic stage shows
comes from a fear of failure.
“I don’t want to be phony,” she
said. “I have to feel like I need to
get my point across, and singing
just comes out that way.”
The Crow: City of Angels
Starring Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner
and Richard Brooks
Directed by Tim Pope
Rated R
, Playing at Hollywood 16
A man dies a wrongful death, returns from
a watery grave and a crow carries his spirit to
avenge the murder of his son.
A plot this simple can only mean a dark
sequel to The Crow.
Vincent Perez portrays Ashe Corven, a
character brought back to life after he and his
son were murdered by a group of thugs head
ed by the mystical Judah (Richard Brooks).
Sarah (Mia Kirshner) befriends Ashe with
the knowledge of what he must do — her
dreams predicted his forthcoming and gave
insight on events yet to come.
So Ashe walks the path of revenge, but to
reach Judah, he must take on each of the
magic man’s followers.
True to script, the audience is taken on a
roller coaster ride of payback, but the vio
lence is overdone and drawn out.
Drug usage, another undertone of the film,
attempts to become a necessary subplot and
fails terribly.
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Scenes of Judah’s black powder being
snorted and caressed in the hands of users
does nothing to advance the storyline.
With all of these detrimental attributes
contributing to the downfall of The Crow: City
of Angels, the acting
delivered by Perez
and Kirshner seem
to keep the film
above water.
As Sarah,
Kirshner gives an
innocent face the
tragic life experi
ence developed
from living in the
so-called “City of
Angels.”
Perez, on the other hand, is close to perfec
tion with abounding emotional flares from
one moment to the next.
Rounding out the cast, Brooks is static in
his tone and movements which gives Iggy
Pop, as his sidekick Curve, the chance to ham
it up.
Overall, The Crow: City of Angels has the
desire to show the audience that love is some
times stronger than death.
What should have been a reality is the need
for more sequels to go straight to video. C-
- James Francis
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