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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.</i>
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 Spring 1998 issue was published only on the internet, and the first printed issue was published in Winter 1998. After that, there has been an issue published on nice shiny paper every semester, with perhaps one exception. 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. [[Dan Bahls '04|Dan Bahls]] thinks it was Spring 2002, though.
It was for the Mad Cow that the word "derecognize" was coined in 2001. In the Spring of that year, the magazine published a list of departmental pick-up lines that were of questionable taste. The staff worried that campus would not take kindly to this crude humor, and to some degree they were right. However, most concentrated on an article (written by the now-infamous 'Hans Oji') that satirized the then-new position of College Council MinCo Rep. For this, CC threatened to derecognize the whole organization. While the magazine continued the next year, it began publishing a disclaimer in the front of every issue. In addition, the Cow began seeking volunteers to test-read its articles. If you would like to test-read for the Mad Cow, please e-mail the editors' listserver at madcow@wso.williams.edu to volunteer.