The new East Wing of D.H. Hill Library became the scene of more than just studious students Wednesday afternoon, but also an inspiration for a new Facebook group: “I witnessed the first ass beating in the new wing of D.H. Hill.”

“It appears that there was a fight of some sort involving two males,” Sgt. Jon Barnwell of Campus Police said. “One guy was ‘hitting on’ another guy’s girlfriend.”

According to Barnwell, police had not determined if any weapons were used early Wednesday evening.

“One guy appears to have a cut on his lip,” Barnwell said. “What it looks like right now is he got punched in the mouth.”

Police on the scene said there was an injury from a “standard fight” and EMS transported one of the students involved to Wake Med.

According to Police Officer Richard Potts, police could not release the names of the students until they completed the investigation and they had figured out who was the victim and who was the defendant.

Travis Varner, junior in agricultural extensions and creator of the Facebook group, said he saw a male student typing on the computer when another student came up to him “just all casual,” punched him and his “face explodes.”

According to Varner, the two then began to fight, but although the student in the computer chair was bigger than the other student, he couldn’t do much from his chair, and curse words were uttered.

“It was skin on skin,” Varner said. “It wasn’t brass knuckles or anything.”

According to another witness, Megan Cooke, a senior in natural resource management, she was sitting in the library when she heard two students yelling and that’s when “the whole place was [silent] — nobody moved.”

Cooke said a library employee went up to the students to break up the fight.

Varner said the student sitting in the chair got up after a few seconds of the fight and the student who initiated the fight walked out the door of the East Wing.

“Then the dude just strutted out,” he said. “It was crazy.”

The second student, Varner said, left after the first.

According to Varner, police officers didn’t arrive on the scene until 25 minutes after the incident.

The girlfriend of one of the students involved in the fight refused to comment.