Both of the injured students are in the process of filing a complaint against the two students they allege assaulted them.
Campus police reportedly received a call at approximately 1 a.m. from UMass Health Services informing them that two students from the College were being treated for injuries they had received at the College.
An officer from campus police went to UMass to interview the reporting parties, who said they had been assaulted near Seelye House.
"The officers determined that it was a possibility that those who had committed the assault were Amherst College students," said Chief of Campus Police John Carter. "[Campus police] sent a report to the dean of students' office for further investigation."
According to the two students who were attacked, the perpetrators were members of the men's hockey team. "I hope people don't construe certain actions by a couple of members of the team as a condemnation of the whole team," said men's hockey coach Jack Arena, who did not want to comment on the specific incident while it is under investigation.
One of the students said that one of his attackers held him while another hit him. The student was treated for a broken nose and received stitches for cuts to his forehead. He said a doctor later had to rebreak his nose so that it could be reset.
The second student had a welt on the left side of his head and has a scar over his left eye.
Acting Dean of Students and Director of Residential Life Charri Boykin-East said that she has been working with members of the administration to investigate the complaint.
"We always investigate these incidents when formal complaints are filed … This is not any different from how we normally deal with these cases," said Boykin-East. "The investigation is still in the early stages."
According to Carter, campus police is not currently seeking a disciplinary referral, but they are assisting the dean's office with the investigation.
"We will continue to take this sort of violence very seriously, and treat it on a case-by-case basis," said Carter. "We have very good resources for dealing with violence on campus, and we aren't hesitant to involve the criminal courts as needed."
Boykin-East said the matter will develop further over the next few days. "I'm very proud of the way the people involved have acted after the fact … Cooler heads are prevailing," she said.
President Tom Gerety said that he could not comment on the matter because it is under investigation, but expressed concern over the events of Homecoming weekend.
"It was an appalling several days," said Gerety, noting that there were a higher than usual number of vandalism reports and physical violence.
Gerety added that there have been several alcohol-related incidents of violence and vandalism on campus and that the administration may need to reexamine what he called "student freedoms."
Carter also expressed concern that the level of violence was especially high over Homecoming weekend.
"The amount of violence over Homecoming was appalling and unacceptable for this type of College," said Carter. He added that the level of activity has dropped off since Homecoming.
Carter said that the alcohol policy is a topic of constant conversation among the administration.