“…at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally. There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.” –1984, Chapter 17
As late as December 2001, Institute-issued literature was referring to the building that would later scar the west hill of campus as the “Electronic Media and Performing Arts Center”.
Then one day, it became the “Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center”.
As the story goes, Shirley Jackson misspoke at an important event related to EMPAC, saying “experimental” rather than “electronic”, and in true Orwellian fashion, Jackson’s error became the new title.
