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Issue date: 3/3/08 Section: News

Media Credit: Photo courtesy of Joe Nguyen Levi Rosenthal, the ICC Chair of Programs at the time, climbed on top of the fountain in the Main Quad during his performance in Club Day on Jan. 31. He was removed from his position because of this.

A week after his removal as Inter Club Council Chair of Programsbecause he jumped into the Main Quad fountain on Club Day, Levi Rosenthal apologized to his peers and ICC representatives at the Feb. 13 ICC meeting.

"I apologize for what I did as ICC Chair of Programs, because as an elected leader you have to think before you act," said Rosenthal.

However, he stressed that he was not apologizing as a personality independent of the ICC, because of his mantra to have fun and live life to the fullest. "I wanted to make it clear what I was apologizing for," he said.

ICC Chair Elaine Smith and ICC Chair of Finance Jonathan Yeung, who are fulfilling Rosenthal's duties until a new team of ICC officers is sworn in on March 12, were not happy with his appearance.

"His apology is totally inadequate," said Yeung. "It did not, in essence, address what he did, but just gave him a good stepping stone to walk down from. It wasn't professional."

"It wasn't just [Club Day], it's been an accumulation of things," Smith said. He wasn't fulfilling his duties and responsibilities, he wouldn't come to the officer meetings and he wouldn't fulfill his office hours, she said. "He would do everything he could to put himself out there, and not for the clubs, but for himself."

Rosenthal said, "My biggest criticism to [Jonathan and Elaine] is 'hey, while you guys were doing the upper level stuff I was down there in the dirt, where were you'?"

Rosenthal urges De Anza students to consider recent removals of leaders on campus, "When you see two leaders being impeached, there is a problem. You have to really ask yourself, 'Is it the leader who got impeached or is it something that's going on in the organization that people aren't seeing?' " Rosenthal said he would preach to the latter. "There needs to be some radical change," he said.

He was referring to the no confidence vote passed by the De Anza Associated Student Body Senate last month, which removed Robin Claassen from presidency and replaced him with Vice President Rahela Sami.

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