Two recent findings from the federal government regarding how school’s handle campus sexual assault cases have had a disturbing similarity: Both schools were faulted for not investigating an accusation even when the accuser didn’t want it investigated.

At Michigan State University, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights determined the school failed to provide a “prompt and equitable” response to an accusation because it failed to investigate an informal complaint — one where the accuser chose not to go through the school process of a formal hearing. Now the same accusation (among others) has been made against the University of Virginia.