The Student Association’s Multicultural Affairs office was rocked again last night when allegations surfaced that David Redbord publicly mocked a member of a cultural campus group in a room full of Assembly representatives.

A resolution was presented in the Assembly charging that Redbord was “ridiculing student group leaders for English-language difficulties in a crowded SA office, despite being chastised for belittling students,” and also alleges that the VPMA has been negligent in representing the Assembly to the Intercultural Awareness Committee.

“I think that David [Redbord] has made a lot of mistakes this year, and it has come to a point where a lot of people are upset with his behavior,” said Chris Powell, the SA’s vice president for finance, during Monday night’s Assembly meeting.

He also urged Redbord to divulge how he has advised a student who was the target of a derogatory remark towards homosexuals said by a caller on BTV last week. Redbord, however, said he was acting within the perameters of his office by helping the student.

The Assembly has one week to consider the impeachment charges that would remove Redbord from the position and instate the winner of this week’s VPMA election to be pro-tem until yet another election can be run confirming him or her.

During a prolonged question and answer session, Redbord said that his intention in reading the letter from a Korean music group was misunderstood, and that he was merely asking the Rules Committee for advice.

The group, he said in an interview after the meeting, was asking for $100 to $200 for a performance at an upcoming banquet. After the Rules Committee meeting and before the Assembly meeting began, he decided to read the e-mail aloud to gauge whether their request was valid.

“If the e-mail contained grammatical errors, that is the way it was sent to me,” Redbord said. “Any of the grammar issues that were found in the e-mail were there.”

“Perhaps my pausing,” he added, “to kind of take into account the grammatical errors was misinterpreted as emphasis.”

Though Powell and Joe Danko, the executive vice president of the SA, both asked him to stop reading the e-mail, Redbord said he believed they were concerned because the Assembly meeting was about to start.

He was not able to finish reading the e-mail, and Redbord said his actions were taken out of context.

But Danko, who noted that he usually excused himself from weighing in on the disagreements between Powell and Redbord, said the issue would be brought up at this Wednesday’s Student Group Council meeting.

“I feel David [Redbord] has been spinning the truth on us tonight …” Danko said, adding that it would be important for the ICA to give their opinion on the controversy.

Redbord shot back at Powell, calling the issue a “distraction” and saying that the “accusations are unfounded and unwarrented and serve to waste the time of the Assembly and all those present.”

Powell, he said, has also “expressed doubts about the legitimacy of the VPMA position.” The proceeding may be fueled by Powell’s opinions about the office.

But Alice Liou, the Financial Council chair, and several other Assembly members, including Michael Calabrese and Matt Allwood, said that Redbord’s actions is an instance of intentional misconduct.

Redbord “intentionally or unintentionally misrepresented the intentions of the Assembly to the ICA,” Calabrese said, adding that his actions have fostered “miscommunication” between the Assembly, the ICA and the VPMA office.

“When you do that in a room full of 15-plus people,” said Liou, “you are opening yourself up to censure, and that is what is happening now.”