Changes

History:

The Purple Cow, the original Williams humor magazine with the harlequin and holstein cover, was loved proudly for half a century. Somewhere in the 40s, it paused for WWII, and somewhere in the 50s picked up a few colors of ink beyond the original purple. In 1960, all vestiges of a humor magazine at Williams mysteriously went extinct. They stayed that way into the early 90s, which priefly served up the spoof magazine Beeph.

Jump ahead a few years to Winter Study of 1998. Inspired by Paul Park's parody class, an intrepid band of idealistic young whippersnappers with time on their hands decided to try and bring back the glory days of old. Sure enough, later that spring, an elite cadre Scotch-taped their idea of a humor magazine over the depths of cyberspace. And there was much rejoicing, among the three people who read it.

These words come to us from the ancestors who lived through the historical days of the inception and birth of the first Mad Cow. The winter 1998 issue was printed, and the spring issue published only on the internets. After that, there has been an issue published on nice shiny paper every semester, save one. We can’t really figure out which semester went Cow-less, because some issues have the unfortunate tendency to print years on the cover that don’t necessarily match those on the title page.