Recurring assaults at the Greenberg Ice Pavilion have prompted management to look closer at late-night event policies at the campus skating rink, Penn State University Police said yesterday.

University police assistant director Tyrone Parham said police reported to the rink twice early Saturday morning -- once at 3 a.m. for a disturbance and again at 4:45 a.m. for a fight. At the second call, a victim told police he was attacked by several unidentified men inside the ice pavilion and received several injuries to the jaw and eye.

Parham said the violence could be a product of the ice pavilion's available hours -- last weekend's party started at midnight and was supposed to end at 6 a.m. before police cut it short.

Although police did not have any indication that alcohol was involved in last weekend's assault, Parham said the department isn't ruling out the idea that alcohol is an underlying problem in the violence that has occurred in the past at the ice pavilion.

"Having parties until 6 [a.m.] certainly has the writing on the wall that people are going to be there that have been drinking," he said.

Apparently, the assault occurred because the men had bumped into each other earlier in the night, Parham said.

"Obviously something is happening. There is a pattern developing here. And we're going to have to sit down and look at it to see what the cause is," ice pavilion manager Chris Whittemore said.

Whittemore said he is looking into several factors that may lead to violence at the ice pavilion: that the building stays open "into the wee hours of the morning," that people may be consuming alcohol before entering the parties and that too many people are attending the events.

Saturday's assault occurred just weeks after a series of fights broke out at the ice pavilion during Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity's annual Black Ice party Feb. 7.

That night, university police encountered four fights, involving about 15 to 30 people each, between 3:15 and 4 a.m. The fights were capped off with police confiscation of a handgun and marijuana from a student who had left the party and was driving away in a car.

At the Black Ice party two years ago, Penn State quarterback Michael Robinson was pushed into a glass trophy case inside the ice pavilion and received 24 stitches behind his ear.

Last weekend's incident marks the third in three years for the Ice Pavilion, Whittemore said.

Parham said the police shut down the party after the second call at about 4:45 a.m.

"With those hours on a weekend night, it's going to bring some people that have been drinking," Parham said. "That's unfortunately the culture here."

The fight occurred during a party hosted by the Caribbean Student Association, but it is unclear if the fight involved members of the student club. Several hundred people were in attendance, Parham said.