Nexus Magazine
EditorJak Rāta[1]
Deputy EditorsTehana De Klerk, Seamus Lohrey[2]
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation2000
Founded1967
CompanyNexus Magazine
CountryNew Zealand
Based inHamilton
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.nexusmag.co.nz

Nexus is the weekly free students' magazine of the Waikato Students Union at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.[3]

History and profile

Nexus was established in 1967[4] and now has an advertised circulation of 2000 weekly.[5] 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.[6]

Controversy

In 1967, Nexus was 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.[7] Nexus 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. ↑ "Nexus Magazine Issue 03, 2022". Nexus Magazine. 20 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "Nexus Magazine, Meet the Team". Nexus Magazine. 1 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "Other Students' Associations". Waikato University. 2 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Nexus home page". Nexus Magazine. 25 March 2022.
  5. ↑ "Nexus 2008 advertising rate card" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2010.
  6. ↑ "Waikato Result Welcomed". 20 October 2000.
  7. ↑ "Defamation Update – The Student Rag and the History Professor". 1 February 2015.
  8. ↑ "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". NZ Herald. Retrieved 2 February 2016.


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