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An investigation by the Bangor Daily News uncovered how the University of Maine at Farmington failed to follow due process in its confidential handling of two separate Title IX cases where female students reported being raped. Both women faced committees that decided they had been sexually assaulted, but then both saw their cases overturned in bizarre fashion: one at the hands of the university president who told the first alleged victim to seek alcohol counseling, and the other at the discretion of appeals board members who objected to the fact that the alleged perpetrator brought up a separate, pending protection from abuse order against him and no one told them to disregard the information. The female students saw their feelings of safety evaporate as the male students remained on the 1,600-student campus. After the Bangor Daily News published the story, more female students contacted the newspaper to say they had also been harassed or assaulted by one of the men in question. The newspaper’s continued reporting resulted in his suspension pending the outcome of a school investigation.