IOWA CITY - The Iowa Attorney General's office has released hundreds of pages of documents in a University of Iowa sexual assault case. (linked at bottom of this story)

Former Hawkeye football players Abe Satterfield and Cedric Everson face sexual assault charges for the incident that allegedly happened last October inside a university dorm.

There has been much talk about how the University of Iowa handled their response to this incident. On Wednesday, we learned that several notes and emails suggest some top university officials were also concerned about the university's internal response.

The 785 pages tell just a small part of the story surrounding the alleged sexual assault that supposedly happened at Hillcrest Residence Hall nearly one year ago. An index released Tuesday outlined which documents will be withheld from public view.

What we do know is that the morning after the alleged assault, at least three top level university officials were aware of the incident.

Shorthand notes from a phone call between the athletics department and the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity suggest that a sexual assault occurred.

The notes say "sexual assault over the weekend...m + f athletes...had a rape kit done..."

Other emails suggest that some University officials expressed concern that the University's handling of the case was breaking from procedures.

An email sent from Jan Waterhouse, an assistant dean in the College of Nursing, who was also paid to help out on the case, says that she believed that "parties are perceiving the process to be slow because Athletics conducted an 'informal' investigation, which is not typical for this type of allegation, and that delayed the initiation of the formal investigation."

Chuck Green, UI public safety director, also questioned the university's approach to the investigation.

In an email he wrote "how can an assault (of any nature) not also be a criminal act which...does not allow for an informal process. Did anyone inform the reporting party or her father there is a strong reason to believe that two men had sexual intercourse with her?"

The Board of Regents hired a St. Louis law firm to investigate how the university handled the case. The regents could get the firm's findings on Thursday.

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