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Issue: 201004 - The Food Issue top

Student-Loan Fee Increase Just the Beginning
How Does Your Flat Stack Up?
Cheaper Meals, Or Else
ASPA: Drinking Age To Rise?
Stumping the Ciggie
ASPA: Student Support Hangs in the Balance
Well, Phil, Your Party Brought It In
US President Declares War On Technology
Dunedin's Living Campus
Editorial: You Think You’ve Got It Bad?
Sex Angle: Mmmm... Parsnips.
Mad, Bad, or Misunderstood: Gordon Ramsey
Captain Obvious: Why Do We Hate Vegetables?
Blood Chocolate
Globesity
Interview: NZ's First Masterchef
Do-it-yourself : Yummy food on a budget
Sugar Withdrawal: Diary of a Chocolate Junkie
Sports _Mode: Wilderness Cooking Tips
Free Stuff to do in Dunners: Free Food
Exec: Cheap Power Bills
MC Prez: A Bald Assertion
Restaurant-Quality Meal for Ten Bucks a Head
Why Did the Woman Cross the –
Under the screw
Review: Takeaways: The Flying Squid
Meal: Domino's Oven Baked Sandwich
Café: Fluid Espresso
Film: Chocolat
Thoughts in the Weird Food Aisle

Issue: 201003 - Sex, Love, & Intimacy Issue top

OPSA Execcies Going Bald
Farewell to Opportunities?
Students Wired… Without Wires
Sammy's Back on its Feet
Government Takeover of Polytechs Begins
Vatican makes peace with Beatles
STDS on Facebook?
Sex Around the World
Sexuality: He Says / Shes Says
Mad, Bad, or Misunderstood: Shere Hite?
Captain Obvious
Confessions of a Sex Addict
Exploitation: Pushing the Boundaries
Still Blaming the Victim
Linging. Seriouisly. Simple.
Sports _Mode
Free Stuff To Do in Dunners: Frisbee Golf
Meet your students’ association executive committee 2010
Unnatural Desires
Gyro’s Utterly Embarrassing Condom Quiz
Film: Sex and Lucia
Play: The Intricate Art of Actually Caring
Show: Burlesque as You Like It

Issue: 201001 - Orientation 2010 Issue top

Student Representation Faces the End
Student Loan Interest: Will He, Won’t He?
Get In Amongst It!
Engineering and Art: Potential Flatmates
Student Representation In Danger
New Honcho Any Better than Old Honcho?
Back to the Good Old Days?
And Yet they’re Allowed to Sunbathe Topless...
The Last Ori that Doesn’t Suck
Send the Bullshit Back
Is This the Last Ori Issue?
Workplace Full Frontal
MC Pres: Hey Everyone
Sustainability: Don’t Buy It
Mad, Bad or Misunderstood: Margaret Thatcher
Sports _Mode: Time Goes By
Seeing Red?
Conquering Study Stress
Orientation 2010 Guide
Know Your Rights
Film review: Let the Right One In
Exhibition review: The 2010 Grad Show
The Student Fridge
Dunedin Drug Rape Scene
Gyro Student Services Guide 2010

Issue: 200908 - The cute and fluffy issue top

Student debt to double by 2020
National screws polytechs, students unsurprised
Australian tragedy to be repeated here?
Editorial: Cute cats
Government shafts Polytech up the arts
Mad, bad, or misunderstood: Hugh Hefner
Where are they now?
We’re number two!
Cheap eye for the flatting guy
If we could talk to the animals...
Alternative Medicine – What’s that about then?
Book: Dunedin Tracks and Trails
Beer Monty Python’s Holy Grail Ale
Webcomic: Digger
Snow Games not abominable
Presidents column
Survival of the Cutest?
We Don’t Do Fluffy

Issue: 200907 - The Evil Issue top

Reject '80s MP tries to screw students' associations
Otago Polytech for sale?
New national student president elected
It’s on! 2010 Student presidential election
Stop The Stadium admits defeat; plans vengeance
Polytech back in the red – thanks, National
Porn cover-up
World's oldest penis "pretty big find"
Mad, bad or misunderstood: George Bush
Where are they now: Joey from Shortland St
Racists go to HELL
Don’t Get Caught
OP claims NZ’s only polytechnic Fulbright Senior Scholarship
Interview: Age of Stupid producer Lizzie Gillett
My encounter with a Dunedin nazi
How the hell did a man so like Basil Fawlty ever terrorize a continent?
Corporate Evil
How much is a human life worth?
Are You Evil?
The Path to the Dark Side: Crime and Punishment
Secret places: Gun Emplacements
Film: Stone of Destiny
Beer: Emerson’s JP 2009
TV Series: True Blood
International Blasphemy Day
President's column
Polytechnic Student Presidential 2010 Candidates

Issue: 200906 - Back to Nature top

Government under-funding passed on to you
MP Paula Bennett found guilty
Government critic spied on
Emissions reduction: “You first...
Alcohol purchase age to rise?
Be the next OP student president
srly u r kdng?
Hamster wet, thief silent
Great Balls of Fire!
Secret places: Dunedin's secret glow-worms
Mad, bad or misunderstood?: Darwin
Where are they now?: Jane Goodall
Who the hell is That Guy?
Where can I get naked?
I’m on a bike - DCC listens for a change
Where was your mother - 3,000,000,000 years ago?
organic food - Why bother?
Who needs a back yard?
Film Review: G I Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Otago Poly Represents
NEW: Polytechnic Student Presidential 2010 Candidates

Issue: 200905 - The Bullsh!t Issue top

OP looking at problems in 2011
Letter to the eds
Proposed purge of national student body
Student Centre: put a fork in it
Last orders at Tennyson Street
Recession: Time to upskill not cut back
Come again?
Young male says no to free sex
Robosexuality?
Look up: Get shafted
Secret places: On the piss
Punk’d – 100 years ago the original prankster
Where are they now: Millie Vanilli
Conspiracy Countdown
Autism: The cure for normality
What if Everything is Bullshit?
Arts hole: I Was Russia
Review: Transformers 2
Review: Jam Night, Chick's Hotel
Review: Beer Smokin’ Bishop
Gyro chats with Tawhiri Karetai
Presidents column
The Global Warming Conspiracy

Issue: 200904 - The Sex Issue top

It's all a bunch of cock
National failing education
Polytech prepares for long-term screwing
Polytech president resigns
Student peninsular love-fest
Unmoved by democracy, hurt by cartoon
Man screws both neighbours
Crook eats own weapon
Only in Japan...
Porn-star interview: Bree Olson
Mad, bad or misunderstood: Marquis de Sade
Where are they now? Monica Lewinsky
Cheap Eye: Homemade sex toys
Interview: Queer Sexuality
Gyro's Field Guide to Sexual Fetishes
What if life was like p0rn?
Weird Animal Sex
Look up!
Arts Hole: The Sleeping Room
CD review: So Alive
CD The Brave Don't Run
CD Want
Dunedin's Top 10 Pick-Up Spots
Secret places: Dunedin's Sex Gardens
Gyro Sex Quix
President's Column
Chlamydia

Issue: 200903 - The Workers' Issue top

10% Bonus for graduates
Editorial
"Would you like guns with that?"
White elephant lumbers one step further
Trousers lowered, awareness raised
Giant tarantula found in Polytech toilet
Design designs still on hold
You can see mine from space!
Russian man grows carbon credit
Someone should make a movie...
Look Up: Local legend
Secret Places: Local shame
Mad, bad or misunderstood: Henry Ford
Where are they now: The McLibel Two
Celebrity Deathmatch: Marx vs Stalin
Cheap-eye: Free firewood?
Interview: Gyro gets funky with Sola Rosa
Super-size my pay: Gyro interviews Unite's Omar Hamed
Quiz: Can my boss do that?
Everybody be cool, this is a robbery!
Blood in the streets
Which union is right for you?
Arts hole: Di ffrench
Black Seeds
Biff Merchants - Harold
Book: How to Build a Village
CFour, DJ Drop, Boof, FreQ Nasty, Doc Scott, Marcus Intalex
CD: Sola Rosa - Get It Together
SoNic Smith - My Digital Tao
Thousands killed at Polytech
Commons: Take it, it's yours...
Presidents' column
Whatever Happened to Socialism?

Issue: 200902 - Fantasy Issue top

Students keen on bondage?
Limber Up Your Mind
No room at the inn for student athletes
Drug pusher Rogered
Hawai'i: Get paid to be there
Student leaders on national tour
90 Day Act: Nobody WINZ
Vote for your favourite student politicians
Cow piss soft drink
Nuclear subs collide
Weta Workshops make real mermaid
Dunedins Real Vampire Alleys
Mad, bad or misunderstood: Alexander Crowley
Where are they now - Lucy Lawless
Cheap Eye
Poly Pi: Phantasy Phiction Phob Mythology
Back to the Future
Dr Who: the Gyro interview
The Good, the Bad, and the Cliche
Pacifist Warfare: Fighting for Fun
What if Magic was real?
Local Fantasy Sites
Up your arts-hole
Book: Nation
Webcomic: Darths and Droids
Comedy: Dai Henwood
An Open Letter to Students and Staff

Issue: 200901 - Orientation Issue top

Crappy O-week - Thanks, Voluntary Membership!
The Pick-up Artist
Write/Draw/Dribble for Gyro in 2009
Student Centre: on course despite underfunding
Coming soon – lots more art
OPSA: run by students and you could be one...
White elephants on George St
World-wide university
Kissing legal in India
More wet skin
Shit farm turns to goldmine
Ordinary Gazans Strangled on All Sides
New Stadium - "...it can't fly"
Mad, Bad or Misunderstood: Sarah Palin
Where are they now: Hanson
Cheap Eye - Free stuff
Interview: Dai Henwood
Orientation Guide
What to do...
16 Things...
Interview: Sonic Smith
Deer Hunting with Jesus
Red Wine and Postcards
The Myth of Mars and Venus
Free Stuff Student Services Guide 2009
Presidents column
Recession bites student body

Issue: 200809 - The Hippy & Graduation Issue top

Australia patches voluntary membership disaster
2008 - Gyro's 10 Reasons to be cheerful...
Editorial - Peace, Love, and Freedom, Man...
Union doesn't burn Ronald McDonald
Student no longer on death row
News in briefs
Secret Places - Whareakeake
Look Up - Cargill Monument
Micronation - The Freetown of Christiania
Back to the Future - Electroculture
Cheapeye for the Flatting guy
Gyro gives Jono Pryor a once-over
Drugs
Hippiethink
Dunedin's experiment in cooperative living
Get Up, Stand Up Stand up for your rights
DIY Gormet
Up your Artshole
The Year That Was 2008 - in review
Book: Life in the Future (published 1976)
CD: Choice Language
Film Wall•E
Scambusters
Write/Draw/Dribble for Gyro in 2009

Issue: 200808 - Eat, Drink and Be Merry Issue top

MASS education DEBATE
Editorial: We're #3 We're #3 We're #3
Letter to the Ed: Terrorists redundant
Nats play doctor with student loans
Meegz & Ryan Show booked for further season
OPSA's annual Staff and Graduation awards are now open
Victoria Uni pushes fees up and students around
Satisfied bellies
They like us! They... kind of like us.
Coke adds life, or maybe not
Couple leave stains on track
Breast is best
Secret places: Cliffside Potato Patch
Gyro's Dummies student guide to voting
DIY Gormet: Posh Nosh that won’t break the bank...
Cheap Beer
Screwed by food
“How do you make such damn good beer?”
Ask the MP
Free Food: Dunedin's own wild foods festival
Arts Hole: We Hold Back The Night, Caroline McQuarrie
Review: Take It or Leave It
Review: To The Rescue
Review: Erfworld
President’s column
Gyro Chats Up Jaquie Brown
A Forged Forgery
Why I Believe in Free Education

Issue: 200807 - Seven Deadly Sins top

OP student fees rise again
Pacific Islanders invade OP
Stadium opposition growing
Gyro Quiz: What's Your Besetting Sin?
More than just a garden
Pre-election reshuffle at OPSA
One world, One dream, One party...
No dogs allowed... anywhere
Revolution growing
Idiot of the month
Baxter’s the coolest dude on the planet...
Secret Places: Cargill's Wharf
One-on-One with "Beau Tyler"
PRIDE: Seven deadly sins
GREED: but whose?
ENVY: Can it be cured?
SLOTH: Those lazy dole bludgers...
WRATH: World, my finger is on the button
GLUTTONY: Obesity?
Film El Orfanato (The Orphanage)
Show Carmina Burana
Review: A Night with Beau Tyler
Vice-presidents’ Column
Presidents’ column
Nominations Open: OP Sporting Blues Awards
LUST: Why is it considered a sin at all?

Issue: 200806 - The Conspiracy Issue top

Government responds to student action... eventually
Islamophobia
Politically Correct - Who's afraid of the big bad bogeyman?
Gyro's Sneaky Conspiracy Quiz
Conspiring to Conspire: Why the world is one big conspiracy
Presidents’ Column
Cult of the Month
Arts Hole: Legacy - Meredith Collins
Ask the MP
Growing rift within Anglican Church
Nuclear power for Saudis?
Curtains for performer
Father, we have sinned
Cracker "kidnapped"
Dude, Where’s My Water-Powered Car?
The Organ Pipes Under Snow
Look Up: The Stavely Building
Interview: Cora Fabros
DIY Gormet: Kaimoana for the People
Review: Chinese Garden
Film Capricorn One
Book: The Divinity Code
Scambaiting: Gypping in the Marsh
Micronation: The Dominion of Melchizedek
CheapEye: How can I cut my fuel bill?
Stadium supporters
Satanism
Wanna be OP student president?
Be a buddy
Editorial: THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
Student Services: What can they do for you?
Arrested protester speaks out against police

Issue: 200805 - The Winter Issue top

Quiz: How cold is your flat?
Global Meltdown: Time to save the world
Edifice Complex: Do we need a new stadium?
Review: The Capping Show
Exhibit Review: Discovery World Tropical Forest
Book Review: Wintersmith
Interview: Nandor Tanczos
OP goes open-source
Student leader under threat
Funding available - get in quick
Campus coming to life
Meet new friends, pad your CV
They do teeth as well
Washington computer researchers
A bad trip
Ask the MP
Heated Roads and Tomatoes in Siberia
Bro Down
Winter-proof your flat
Editorial
Micronation
President’s column
DIY Gourmet
Trademe: scammers paradise?
Cult of the month
Exec commentary on Nelson
Budget disappoints

Issue: 200708 - Sell Your Soul top

Student loan borrowing increasing — IRD
Editorial :: Democracy for sale
Catholic stance a health risk
OPSA awards top sporting performances
Unions launch ‘net initiative
Much-loved character is gay
Terror raids illegal?
Energy innovations sought
Don’t get screwed - Join a union...
What union is right for me?
New Zealander in jail for political crime
Micronation For Sale
Back to the Future: The Mega City - Metropolis!
CheapEye :: Shop on Carroll
Cults :: The Exclusive Brethren
Homemade Coffee Liqueur
QUIZ :: How Much is your Soul Worth?
I Sold My Soul to Capitalism
“I Sold My Soul On EBay”
Tramping by Bus: Signal Hill
Christian Fundamentalism
Opinion :: The National Party
It’s official — Gyro sucks
QUIZ :: For which of the following sins does God NOT specifically prescribe the death penalty?
2007 :: The year that was...
Poly Pi
Panui :: The Bro’ Down
Scambusting :: Reach out and scam someone
Book Review :: Eve’s Bite
Film Review :: The Devil Dared Me To
Up your Arts-hole :: Jason Greig

Issue: 200707 - The Geek Issue top

Editorial
Fees go up 5% - Polytech passes underfunding to students, again
Nudity legal... again
OP’s first medal
(Al)ex-parrot
OPSA presidential team elected
Waikato students build electric car
30 years of literacy
Nukes flown over US by mistake
Tramping by Bus - Abbots Hill
Micronation of the Month - Frestonia
Back to the Future - Steam Powered Computers
Cult of the Month - Children’s Books or Holy Writ?
Failsafe Raspberry Wine
Are You a Geek QUIZ?
Why the Future Will Not Look Like Star Trek
Poly Pi
Student Profile
Opinion: Students & Street Fires
Music reinvented - by geeks!
Geeks and Geekdom - What’s geek and what’s not?
Up Your Arts Hole
Halo 3
CD Review: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Why I Believe in Free Education
Steam-powered Scamming
VILLAINS PUNISHED &HEROES REWARDED!
OP Graduation Awards