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Are the Oscars entertaining or poisonous?

By Ali Rothschild | Feb. 25, 2013

It's just a show, deal with it...

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FIJI runs to University of Minnesota stadium for Red Cross fundraiser

By Ali Rothschild and Shannon Kelly and Alex DiTullio | Nov. 11, 2011

Members of UW-Madison's Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) fraternity began the first leg of a 268-mile philanthropic run from Camp Randall to the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium Thursday.

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College Democrats take student input seriously

By Erik Opsal and Ali Rothschild | Oct. 24, 2011

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Television’s influence is easily forgotten, but never irrelevant

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Television’s influence is easily forgotten, but never irrelevant

By Ali Rothschild | May. 6, 2009

There's a somewhat famous speech from Newton Minow in 1961 that declared television a ""vast wasteland."" At times it's a hard point to argue—they thought it was bad in 1961, before ""Survivor"" opened the door to reality television. Today's programming probably makes ""Gilligan's Island"" look like ""Masterpiece Theatre."" But let's withhold all of our judgments about MTV, TLC and other dumb, peripheral processing shows for a second and consider the fact that TV may be the greatest art form we have.

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