The founding editors escaped the prison of Swarthmore with Spike still intact, and, as a final act, they handed the head honcho’s position to Ian Chang ’97.  This is Spike’s most opaque period, and little is known of Chang today—for all we know the magazine may have remained perfectly erudite under his watch, yet in light of our personal ignorance and given the necessity of a proper chronological periodization of the magazine’s history, we must insist that this was a Medieval and barbaric time.  The last traced reference to Chang came in the Spring 1999 “Millennium” issue (see below), to which he contributed an article and in which he is referred to as having “sold out to the man.”  It can at the very least be inferred from some of the archaic scrolls that remain on the original Spike website that under his watch the magazine continued in the trend of journalism focused on Swarthmore; this may have even been the era of the greatest strife between Spike and the Phoenix.  An important piece of trivia is that Chang was the only editor with a mere one-year tenure at the helm.  If anyone has any information on the whereabouts of Chang or the inner workings of the magazine at this time, please contact the webmaster.