I don’t usually find myself caught in the middle of a media standoff between a Pulitzer-winning writer and another journalist, but this was a strange week. It all began on Sunday with a column in the Delaware County Times by Gil Spencer. In it, he drew parallels between the Jerry Sandusky fallout at Penn State with another collegiate pedophile closer to home—Scott Ward, formerly a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. It’s a subject I know well, having detailed Ward’s exploits in 2007 for Philadelphia magazine, as Spencer noted in his column. In November’s Philly Post, I wrote about the eerily identical ways in which both Ward and Sandusky went about their sick conduct: preying on disadvantaged youth, using their money and esteem to gain access and trust, and exploiting their connections to respected universities.