Nexus (student magazine)

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Nexus Magazine
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EditorToby Brockelbank [1] [2]
Section EditorsMaia Jones (News), Dylan Jarrett (Features), Lans McGall (Reviews), Ruby Tocker (Columns), Nina Pacheco (Entertainment) [3]
Staff writersSarah Smith, Joseph Laybourn, Riley Hunt, Alifah Nur, Amira Stephenson, Lauren Anastasi [3]
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation 2000
Founded1967
CompanyNexus Magazine
CountryNew Zealand
Based in Hamilton
LanguageEnglish
Website www.nexusmag.co.nz

Nexus is the weekly free students' magazine of the Waikato Students' Union at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. [4]

Contents

History and profile

Nexus was established in 1967 [5] and now has an advertised circulation of 2000 weekly. [6] It is published throughout the academic year in the form of a full colour magazine and is also made available on the Waikato Students Union website.

In the late 1990s the magazine faced troubled times, caused mainly by the student union membership being made voluntary. [7]

Controversy

In 1967, the editor, co-editor, and printer of Nexus were sued after printing allegations against a professor at the University of Waikato. In court, the case was described as "the worst defamation [case] in New Zealand history" at the time. [8] The editor and co-editor withdrew and expressed regret for these statements, and action was discontinued against both. [8] The printer of Nexus - Wanganui Newspapers Ltd - lost the case, and the defendant was awarded $30,000. [8]

In 2003, an advertisement in the magazine, titled "Nexus, Funnier than Porn", drew several complaints. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "EDITOR v EDITOR – Has Technology Shackled the Proletariat?". Nexus Magazine. 28 April 2025.
  2. ↑ "About Us - WSU". 3 June 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Nexus Magazine, Meet the Team". Nexus Magazine. 3 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "Other Students' Associations". Waikato University. 2 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Nexus home page". Nexus Magazine. 25 March 2022.
  6. ↑ "Nexus 2008 advertising rate card" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2010.
  7. ↑ "Waikato Result Welcomed". 20 October 2000.
  8. 1 2 3 "Defamation Update – The Student Rag and the History Professor". 1 February 2015.
  9. ↑ Elizabeth Binning (9 September 2003). "Student magazine's porn ad in firing line". The New Zealand Herald . Retrieved 2 February 2016.


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