Except one of them did. Turns out, Corvin Boll had turned around to try to catch the reporter, to no avail. Hours later, Boll managed to track down his would-be interviewer with an e-mail, which led to a phone call.

"For me, my reaction to the news was less about necessarily my thoughts on what's going to happen politically because I'm kind of, at this point, used to being afraid," said Boll, who is a trans man and lives in Minneapolis but works in Orono. "But what I wasn't so prepared for was my own emotional reaction ... to the hurt of living in a community that was so proud to have won this victory for someone [President-elect Donald Trump] who so clearly doesn't have my demographic's interest at heart."