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TheROTUNDA Cramming for finals since 1920 STAYING AT THE TOP A&E PAGE 3 A universe comes to a celebratory end SPORTS PAGE 7 Baseball looks to make final push before BSC tourney EDITORIALS PAGES 9–11 Seniors reflect on their APRIL 29, 2019 time in The Rotunda VOL 97. ISSUE 24 CARRIE BAILEY | THE ROTUNDA 02 > NEWS TheRotundaOnline.com EDITORIAL BOARD 2019 RACHAEL POOLE editor-in-chief TJ WENGERT managing editor JEFF HALLIDAY, MIKE MERGEN AND CLINT WRIGHT faculty advisers NEWS ROTUNDA ALLISON TURNER staff STUDIOS ELLIE STUCK A&E staff JACOB DILANDRO ADDIE CLARKE editor staff LEDANIEL JACKSON SUTTON REEKES A message from the staff staff LIAM WELLS OPINIONS staff EDITOR-IN-CHIEF TAIYA JARRETT XARIAH GODFREY by Rachael Poole | Editor-in-Chief | @rapoole17 staff staff DAVINA APPLEWHITE or the last Rotunda edition of the 2018-19 year and as campus gets staff LAYOUT ready for finals week and graduation, I found it fitting to write my first ANGELI LEONG "Letter from the Editor" as the new Editor-in-Chief. SPORTS editor F On behalf of The Rotunda, I would like to give a special spotlight to our KURT MARTIN LAUREN QUEZADA editor assistant editor seniors. In this edition, we've extended the length of the magazine to make editor-in-chief pro-tempore MASON VEST sure each of our graduating seniors have one more opportunity to put their PATRICK SANDERSON staff name on our publication before they graduate. assistant editor Our seniors have been a driving force for this organization in the time NICK LEWIS PHOTO they've been here and deserve the utmost recognition for their hard work. TAYLOR O’BERRY staff Being a part of a news organization is no simple task - a lot of late nights and rotunda studios staff editor BRANDON CHEUNG care go into it. COPY assistant editor This year, we are sending off seven of the best: Christine Rindfleisch, former SARA HOLDSWORTH JACOB PUTERKO editor-in-chief; Erin Eaton, former managing editor; Nicole Del Rosario, editor assistant editor former Rotunda Studios executive producer; Eva Wittkoski, former assistant business manager CARRIE BAILEY photo editor; Alaina Jacques, Rotunda Studios staff; Nick Lewis, sports staff; JESSICA CUBILLA staff staff and Bella Corbo, copy staff. KC MCALLISTER Each of these seniors embody what The Rotunda sets out to do every single ISABELLA CORBO staff day: to seek truth as the voice of Longwood's campus. I think I speak for the staff GISELLE VELASQUEZ CHELSEA MOORE staff entire staff when I say they will be missed, but we are so excited to see what's staff JESSICA PAQUETTE in store for them next. EVENTS staff To the rest of Longwood's seniors: congratulations. You are about to embark AMANDA KING on a wonderful journey in in your field and find success in what makes you coordinator BUSINESS happy. You are about to take your last set of final exams as undergraduates of copy staff IRIS HAMMOND Longwood, and you should be proud of yourselves. assistant business manager RENEE COTTON Your hard work has not gone unnoticed - believe me when I say that. staff Longwood students, faculty and staff play a prominent role in The Rotunda's SOCIAL MEDIA success; without all of you, The Rotunda would not be what it is. We will MIRANDA FARLEY continue to strive for the best and we aim to take you all with us on that editor journey. TAYLOR JENNINGS assistant editor SFC REPORT: Senior Class Council requests funds FOLLOW US ON by Rachael Poole | Editor-in-Chief | @rapoole17 SOCIAL MEDIA Senior Class Council $3,000 INSTAGRAM @rotundaphotos - The funds would be used for Senior Brunch on May 15 that was FACEBOOK @longwood.rotunda originally supposed to be funded through Aramark Catering Services. TWITTER @longwoodrotunda - SFC approved the allocation. APRIL 29, 2019 03 > A&E THE REELMovie reviews by Jacob DiLandro LIFE | A&E Editor | @spongejay1 art of the journey is the end: this Each of the actors are all bringing their accidents but instead, it’s a commitment to a line quoted by virtually every piece A-game, and show the most gumption and singular vision of a cinematic style that was P of “Endgame” marketing material is dramatic fervor in their smallest scenes. Chris started ten years prior. undoubtedly true. Whether it went on for Evans and Robert Downey Jr., especially, Funny enough, the best way to describe ten years or a hundred years, the Marvel deliver top of their career work, showing “Endgame” is with the man and movie Cinematic Universe’s (MCU) crescendoing exactly why these films have stood above their that started it all. Like Tony Stark himself, storyline would eventually come to its counterparts. “Endgame” can be a bit bombastic, overblown conclusion: “Endgame.” It all works so well because of the people; and self-congratulatory. But it also works hard While the MCU will go on with smaller not the action or spectacle. Before their to earn that bombastic-ness. Several shots storylines beyond this, virtually everything subsequent films, Robert Downey Jr., Mark seem worthy of being hung on walls, almost about “Endgame” is laser guided to deliver Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth and as if the film momentarily splits into Greek- the most satisfying conclusion to the story- Jeremy Reiner were all relative nobodies. The style murals of action and superhuman feats. lines that have entangled these films for the same goes for the likes of Chris Pratt, Dave Sometimes it’s down on itself and other last ten years. It does so with broad gusto Bautista, Clark Gregg and Sebastian Stan. times it feels heavy-handed. But at the end of and unexpected twists that may find a few These are now people intrinsically tied the day, it’s exactly what it should have been. scratching their heads. to these characters they’ve dedicated years A celebration and a glorious conclusion, warts This is not to say they’re confusing; despite to performing, with the kind of lifetime and all. It does feel like a massive undertaking, its massive three-hour run-time, “Endgame” association they’ve achieved being on the level like so many action figures being smashed actually feels quite brisk and avoids most of of something like “Star Wars” or “Star Trek.” together inside of the mind of an uber-fan. It’s the pacing issues featured in other superhero “Endgame” ends up delivering not just with a massive victory lap for the MCU, pulled off blockbusters. Rather, “Endgame” spends a its action and finite nature, but because it in as graceful and creative way as a victory lap lot of its time highlighting the impacts these zeroes in on allowing these character moments possibly could be. events, large and small, have had on the to shine through - it consists of people with But … who cares? This is a film meant for universe and characters that inhabit it. extraordinary abilities allowing themselves to those, across so many ages, lives, personalities, It is, in the truest sense of the word, a fight for their own interests some of the time. who have grown with these characters at celebration of what Jon Favreau and Kevin This isn’t a film about people saving the world various times in their lives. It’s a celebration Feige started ten years ago and what it has because it’s their job or because they have to. of the hope that can be inspired by characters evolved into: a group of remarkable people By playing into that ideal, it means the and adventures so outlandish they can’t coming together with broad humor and broad punches hit harder and matter more. It isn’t possibly be true. For so many, they are as real swings to try and make the world a better about saving billions of people; it’s about as they could possibly be. place. saving the few. That’s what matters and that’s To write anymore would be to do a disservice However, given the ending of “Infinity what projects the film into the realm of being to the work that has been done. It’s satisfying War,” directors Anthony and Joe Russo take a truly emotionally satisfying climax. and emotionally powerful, that’s all that an opportunity to play with expectations. To pick apart “Endgame” any further would needs to be said. So go embrace the finale. Not just in the sense of actual plot, but in be to miss the point of its existence: this isn’t Part of the journey is, indeed, the end. But it the character’s motivations and their smaller a normal film, this is a culmination of years can also be a celebration. What a Marvel-ous moments. of work. This is a three-hour third-act for the celebration it is. What this has allowed them to do is create MCU. It’s a miracle that it works without what is almost the weirdest MCU film yet, suffering from massive tonal problems and and they do so with creativity.