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think that’s the thing –– there’s 
no need to make the name fancy 
if it just gets to what it’s talking 
about. What we are studying is 
film, television and media, so 
might as well call it that.”
According to a press release 
from the College of Literature, 
Science, and the Arts, the SAC 
name was initially adopted to 
be adaptable to the changing 
technologies of the industry. 
Department Chair Yeidy Rivero, 
however, heard many stories 
similar 
to 
Georginis’s 
from 
students, parents and alumni.
“Students didn’t know how to 

find the department. Parents of 
students didn’t know what their 
children were studying. Donors 
— many of them from Hollywood 
— didn’t know what ‘screen arts 
and culture’ meant,” Rivero said 
in the release. “I look forward to 
the day when students find the 
department not by chance, but 
because they came to Michigan 
deliberately to study in the 
Department of Film, Television, 
and Media.”
Rivero 
expressed 
her 
excitement for the name change 
in the release.
“Finally their employees will 
know what they studied!” she 
exclaimed. “‘Screen Arts and 
Culture’ — it’s, like, what?”
Business and LSA sophomore 
Andrew Armstrong, an FTVM 

major, agreed the new name 
better encompasses what the 
major actually involves and said 
attracting more students was 
likely part of the department’s 
reasoning.
“The real reason I think they 
changed the name was just 
so that they could try and get 
more people into it, because I 
think a lot of people are most 
interested in television than, 
say, film, or more interested in 
digital media,” he said. “People 
are more likely to sign up for a 
major if it’s very explicit, like 
history, 
English, 
mechanical 
engineering. You hear that and 
you know exactly what you’re 
getting into. Screen arts and 
culture is a little more vague.”
While the Film, Television, 
and 
Media 
Department 
has changed its name only 
once, 
other 
departments 
are on their third, or –– in 
the case of the formally-
called Department of Near 
Eastern Studies, now the 
Department 
of 
Middle 
East Studies –– their sixth 
designation.
The 
department 
effectively began in 1889 
under Carl William Belser, 
an assistant professor of 
“Oriental Languages” who 
taught Hebrew, Assyrian 
and Arabic. Since then, the 
department has been known 
as the Department of Semitic 
Studies, 
the 
Department 
of Oriental Languages and 
Literatures, the Department 
of Near Eastern Studies, the 
Department of Near Eastern 
Languages and Literatures, 
and now the Department of 
Middle East Studies.
As with previous changes, 
this most recent change 
is in keeping with the 
parlance of a large majority 
of students and faculty. In a 
departmental press release 

this month, Department Chair 
Gottfried Hagen noted how few 
people still use the term Near 
East. 
“‘Near East’ for a long time 
was used for the same region, 
in contradistinction to a Middle 
East and a Far East, denoting 
South and East Asia, respectively, 
but with changing perspectives, 
Near and Middle East came to 
mean more or less the same, and 
today, as a quick Google search 
will show, Near East is becoming 
obsolete,” Hagen wrote. “No 
name is perfect. ‘Middle East’ 
still smacks of Eurocentrism, 
for instance. But are we ready 
for ‘Department of West Asian, 
Southeast European, Caucasian, 
Iranian, and North African 
Studies’?”
Public Policy junior Nadia 
Hakim is minoring in Middle 
East 
studies 
and 
agreed 
changing the name will probably 
reduce confusion both for those 
studying it and those who are 
not.
“I kind of had an idea (of what 
Near East meant) but it was kind 
of this weird gray area, like, 
what is Near East referring to?” 
Hakim asked. “Whereas because 
we use Middle East more, it’s 
more concrete. I think the 
Middle East as a term also can be 
problematic, but I think it makes 
more sense. ‘I’m doing the minor 
in the Middle East.’ It just makes 
more sense.”
However, Hakim said, the 
name was nothing more than a 
tagline to her studies.
“I think the name itself is 
not the biggest thing that could 
change,” she said. “For me, it’s 
more content of classes, how 
they’re approaching the Middle 
East, what type of framework 
they’re applying to classes and 
stuff like that. The name itself, I 
think, is just a reflection of how 
we don’t really use the term Near 
East more than anything.”

SAC
From Page 1A

CARTER FOX/Daily

Now that the Union’s 
closed, where do you go to 
spend your Blue Bucks?

“I go to that place 
in the the League... 
Maizie’s. That 
place is so good. 
Maizie’s slays. 
Also, it just looks 
looks nice with all 
that marble. 

LSA Sophomore
Ben Sliwinski

