A Collegian staffer tipped us off to the glowing piece about Austin Scott that ran in today's Philadelphia Daily News. As he points out, the piece is "just a tad unbalanced." The 2,800 word article by Dana Pennett O'Neil is the first part in a "series" that the Daily News is running on Scott. Today's piece was titled "From Promise to Despair," and if you had a problem with the Collegian piece that sparked controversy last Monday, hold your horses cause this one's a doozy. Where are the Daily News' marked with "What about the VICTIM?" all over campus?

The Daily News' series on Scott stems from a 2 1/2 hour interview done by Pennett O'Neil last Sunday in Scott's attorney's office in Allentown and if there ever looking for a fluff piece written about an alleged rapist, here it is. Although Scott doesn't go into specifics about the case in the interview, one of the interesting things he mentions is the treatment he received from Joe Paterno following the rape accusation.

In the article, Scott seems to say that Paterno didn't want to give him the benefit of the doubt in the case, saying, "I don't want to say anything that will look bad on [Paterno], but he didn't want to hear my side of the story. He decided that I was at the bar drinking two nights before a game and that was not the case."

Tomorrow, The Daily News will be finishing up their series with an article about the "[h]igh expectations on the field and the unexpected results" of Scott. The series on the alleged victim is sure to follow next week, right? What's that you say? No such series scheduled huh?