Opus (magazine)

Opus (magazine)
Opus
Type Student newspaper
Format Magazine
Owner Newcastle University Students' Association
Editor-in-chief Carlin McLellan, Rose Gosper & Hallam Fulcher (NUSA Media Officers 2011)
Founded 1954
Political alignment Left-wing
Language English
Headquarters Callaghan, NSW Australia
Official website Opus

Opus is a student newspaper published at the University of Newcastle, Australia by the Newcastle University Students' Association (NUSA). Opus was founded in 1954 by then economics lecturer Cyril Renwick, at what was then the Newcastle University College of the University of New South Wales, in the Newcastle suburb of Callaghan. Renwick proposed a student journal to promote student unity and expression. Teaming up with his secretary's husband, George Kirkby, the first edition of Opus was a four-page broadsheet newspaper replete with the refinement and formality of 1950s journalism.[1]

The format and style of Opus has changed many times throughout its history. The 1970s the publications name was briefly changed to The Stockton Ferry. In a 1998 interview, the late emeritus Professor Godfrey Tanner explained that

"[The Stockton Ferry was] the brainchild of James Beisers and his co-editor who were into drug reform. The idea being that readers would be encouraged to take short trips after reading its contents."[1]

A special edition of the magazine, released in 2002, and edited by BA graduate Matthew Glenn Ward commemorated the life of Godfrey Tanner, a prominent classics professor at the university who had died that year.

Opus takes its name from the former Newcastle City motto, finis coronat opus which is Latin for "completion crowns the work".

The implementation of voluntary student unionism in 2006 had a significant impact on the viability of student newspapers across Australia, compulsory student union membership fees having been the major source of income for most. Opus has been able to continue publishing despite the new law.

Opus is edited by media officers elected by NUSA members to a one-year term. Opus is published quarterly as per the Newcastle University Students' Association's constitution.

References

  1. ^ a b Perrin, M. 2008, Opus and its History, Opus, No. 1 2008, pp. 6-7>

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