MISSOULA — University of Montana’s president says he’ll discuss the results of an investigation of reported sexual assaults involving UM students next week during two public forums.
Royce Engstrom received the report Tuesday from former state Supreme Court Justice Diane Barz, who was hired in mid-December to perform an independent investigation.
UM Vice President Jim Foley says there is significant detail in the report and Engstrom wants time to review it before commenting.
Engstrom plans to discuss the investigation at two public meetings on Feb. 7, one on campus that afternoon and another downtown that evening.
The probe was spurred by reports that two UM students were drugged and raped by multiple male students.
Suspended running back Beau Donaldson has denied a rape charge.
KECI-TV reports the 22-year-old from Missoula appeared in District Court Tuesday and entered a not guilty plea to a felony charge of sexual intercourse without consent.
Court records say Donaldson has acknowledged having sex with a woman while she was sleeping on his couch after a night of drinking in September 2010.
An affidavit filed in support of the charges says Donaldson acknowledged the allegations in a telephone conversation with the woman in December, and blamed it on an alcohol problem and the pain medication he was taking. Police were monitoring the call.
Donaldson was arrested on Jan. 6.
Foley has said that Donaldson is suspended from the team indefinitely.