For more than two months now, University of Montana administrators have grappled with the issue of sexual assault, hiring an outside investigator to produce an independent report on attacks at UM, and pledging to be more attentive to victims’ concerns.

Those efforts took a one-two punch last week as the university scrambled to explain the delay in notifying the Missoula Police Department about the two most recent assaults – which allegedly were committed on the same night by the same man, a Saudi national who has since left the United States.