Gyro (magazine)

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Gyro is the official magazine of its owners the Otago Polytechnic Students' Association (OPSA) [1] at Otago Polytechnic in Otago, New Zealand. Gyro is a member of the Aotearoa Student Press Association (ASPA).

Gyro is printed monthly and covers news, features, regular columns, and reviews. Printed copies are available free of charge around the Dunedin North and Central Otago campus areas, and selected sites in Dunedin city. Archive copies may be located at Dunedin's Hocken Library. On-line copy is constantly available at the Gyro digital site.

Gyro traces its history back to the 1960's photocopied SAM (Students' Association Magazine), and was known as Kram, and Student Informer during the '70s, Informer and Pinch in the '80s, and Tech Torque during the '90s, until its re-branding as "gYRo" in the late 1990s ("Gyro" as of 2007).

[edit] List of editors

  • 2007 — Gregor Campbell & Daniel Copeland
  • 2004–2006 — Carmen Wilson
  • 2002–2003 — Fiona Bowker
  • 2001 — Simone Montgomery (& briefly Duncan Eddy)
  • 2000 — Fraser Heal
  • 1998–1999 Simone Montgomery
  • 1997 — Duncan Heal
  • 1996 — Chris House & Dale Grice
  • 1995 — Sandy Garner
  • 1992 — Shaun Scott

Design/Technical Editors

  • 2001–2007 on — Mark Baxter
  • 199?–2000 — Fraser Heal

[edit] External links

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