Rasheed Abdul-Salaam
Last Thursday, February 12th, 2009, Rasheed Abdul-Salaam, a 22-year-old Senior and member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated was sliced on his left hand by blocking an attempt to cut his face by an off-campus party crasher.
Rory Hicks, also a 22-year-old senior, had a hand in the brawl. According to various sources, a disagreement took place in SUNY Old Westbury's Student Union building with a Briarcliffe College student and he waited patiently until his buddies met him outside of the building to fight with Rasheed and Rory.
"I saw the one guy pull the blade out and aim to cut across my face. I put my left hand up to block it and I decked him with the other," says Abdul-Salaam. "It wasn't a Kappa fight, or a Greek fight. These guys came up here from nowhere and we were forced to handle ourselves."
University Police, whom is everywhere on this campus when students are so-called doing wrong. When students are drinking, UP is there. When students are sitting in the lounge or walking up to the parking lots, UP is there. Guys intrude the campus with weapons and all of a sudden, not one UP officer is to be found?
Since 2004, students have complained about University Police being too strict and brutal on their students. It seems as if they are more concerned with those who have the GPAs to actually attend school than those thugs and gangmembers violating Old Westbury's campus bothering Residents.
As for Rasheed, he lives with six stitches to the hand and six more to the face. Rory has a cast on his right hand with a few fractures. Both heads are up high and wavier than ever!
