It makes a lot of noise when accusations of sexual assault come out of the Ivy League, especially when the accused are football players. The Brown University story is rapidly getting national coverage.
On the other hand, it took newspapers ages to notice what was going on at the University of Montana, where things have gotten so bad that “UM officials concede the controversy [over reported incidents and the university’s response to them] contributed to the school’s enrollment drop.” That drop in enrollment – a very big drop – has continued since the story began to break in 2012. It doesn’t help that UM is featured in the opening paragraphs of a Time article about campus rape.