Tensions have risen over a Facebook post by Rohini Sethi, the SGA vice president, and now students are calling for her removal. | Trey Strange/The Cougar

Twitter and Facebook users are calling for the resignation of the student body vice president after a controversial Facebook post last Thursday.

“Forget #BlackLivesMatter; more like #AllLivesMatter,” SGA Vice President Rohini Sethi wrote at 10:10 p.m. Thursday. The post has since been deleted, but screenshots of it from students of all ethnicities have erupted over social media, especially Twitter, with the hashtag #removerohini.

Wesley Okereke, a psychology senior and the UH NAACP president, said he hopes that the University and SGA will “respond to the issue accordingly.”

“I am deeply disappointed in the comments made by our student body VP, Rohini Sethi,” Okereke said. “To say, ‘Forget #BlackLivesMatter,’ as if we were not a factor in her getting voted into office is a slap in the face to the entire student body. Also, with this school being the No. 2 most diverse university in the nation, comments such as these are unacceptable because it misrepresents the large minority student body here at UH.”

For accounting senior Alexis Sanders, Sethi’s words weren’t just harsh, they were incendiary. She doesn’t feel like Sethi can fully represent her, and therefore, shouldn’t be in student government.

“Being a black woman, her comment was an insensitive, disgusting, thoughtless, and blatantly disrespectful remark,” Sanders said. “Her comment proved she lacks sympathy for her constituents, and if she lacks sympathy for a portion of the students she represents, then she cannot represent the student body as whole. To say, ‘Forget #BlackLivesMatter,” is to say forget all the injustices we face and have faced for years as an African-American race. We are just supposed to simply forget systematic racism, unjust sentences, police brutality and the unlawful killings of the African-American race.”

SGA President Shane Smith said that the opinion was not SGA’s official position.

“SGA believes that the diversity of our student body is what has led to our success as a university,” Smith said. “While we value each other’s differences, there are racial injustices throughout our country that prevent true equality. We all need to work together to be part of the solution.”

On July 9, Smith wrote a letter to all students addressing racial tensions and calling for change. In April, he appointed the first Special Advisor to the President for Campus Diversity.

Niya Blair, director for the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, spoke with Sethi last Friday after a forum on black men and police officers presented by the Black Student Caucus. After receiving negative feedback on Facebook the day before, Sethi invited dissenters to join her at the event and voice their thoughts.

Blair declined to comment on her conversation with students but said that she hopes university students take the recent tragedies in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights and Dallas to create a conversation about race and respecting different cultures.

“Yes, we have a diverse student population, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t experience challenges like other institutions, and I think this is a good wake up call as a university to see that there’s an opportunity for us,” Blair said. “Let alone what Rohini posts — there are people who agree with what she posted, not saying it’s right or wrong — but this is an opportunity for us to have a large conversation on this campus to really look within at how we look at diversity and inclusion.”

At the heart of the issue, Sethi promoted one advocacy hashtag, #AllLivesMatter, over another. In a popular analogy, Blair likened the debate between the movements to a debate between two people arguing over whether to use a water hose on a burning or non-burning house.

Earlier this year, Sethi accidentally used UH SGA’s Twitter to criticize a candidate from the PowerHouse party. She said she meant to post her comments from her personal account and apologized.

Despite calls for her removal, impeachment proceedings would be a long process. According to the SGA constitution, it would take three-fourths of the senators, or unanimous decision between the president and speaker of the house, a now-vacant position, to nominate her for impeachment. Then, she would stand trial in the Supreme Court.

Leah Nash also contributed to the reporting of this story. Rohini Sethi has not yet responded to a request for comment. 

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If you do a lap in the neighborhood today, keep count of the U.S. flags in your way. One of the nation’s most important holidays is upon Houstonians and, don’t forget, it will extend the weekend as well.

Freedom over Texas

Only two things are as glorious as the high-flying flag in Texas when Independence Day arrives: fireworks and country songs. Who needs an alien invasion to lift our spirits high, right? From 4 to 10 p.m. in Eleanor Tinsley Park, these two things will charge the atmosphere and wrap attendees in the purest kind of freedom.

Hot Air Balloonfest

Speaking of high-flying, be at Memorial City Mall from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday to hop on a, yes, hot air balloon! This event, the first of its kind in the town, will let you see H-Town the way Superman sees it for $10, or $5 if you are less than 12 years old. Portions of sales will be given to Memorial Assistance Ministries.

Star Spangled Salute

See the Houston Symphony call up the nation’s pride with Texas-centric tunes, hits from “Dirty Dancing,” an armed forces medley and cannon-filled salute. The event will happen at two places on two days: 8 p.m. July 3 at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in the Woodlands, where actual cannons will be used, and 8:30 p.m. July 4 at the Miller Outdoor Theatre. Both are free.

Coffee and Cars

Get ready, auto enthusiasts, for cars with the highest performance and highest prices are gathering. At this event, dream cars are made real, classic icons reemerge and, for once, a Ferrari is standing still for you to take a photo. Zoom down Saturday, from 8 to 10 a.m., to Memorial City Mall. Two things to remember before leaving the house: There is no charge at the door, and the camera is in the drawer.

Gospel Brunch

Great things in life tend to arrive one at a time, but one place in Houston is defying that notion. The House of Blues, at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, will host an event featuring an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet, local artists going all out with Gospel songs and an opportunity to dance to your heart’s content! Get tickets here.

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Avery Pham and Charnee Collier, students in Emery’s public relations class, pose in front of the donation box outside the Valenti office. | Photo courtesy of Alexandra Doyle

Students in Mike Emery’s Principals of Public Relations class won’t take a typical final next week.

Instead of assigning a usual final, Emery had his class create a PR campaign called Cougar Paws for the Cause for a program called aniMeals on Wheels, which delivers pet food to home-bound seniors with pets. Each group’s goal is to get 20 bags of food donations and educate the local community about an overlooked problem.

“A lot of people don’t know about the initiative,” Emery said.“People usually don’t think about the seniors who are home-bound who have pets. Sometimes their own family is their pets, and they can’t get out shopping for them. It’s a problem.”

AniMeals on Wheels has over 600 clients in with approximately 1,100 pets. To feed them, the program needs to supply 96,000 pounds of food per year. The project was started by Interfaith ministries, who had already organized the Meals on Wheels campaign to those seniors.

Emery has been collecting donations for aniMeals on Wheels since 2012, but this year he began to utilize his PR class to spread its message. He tasked them with creating small campaigns using PR tools, which he believes is necessary for an organization that might not be on most people’s radars.

As part of her final exam, public relations senior Sara Hoffman and her group created a press release, feature story, video and flyer to promote the food drive for aniMeals on Wheels.

“We learned how to work on an entire campaign project on a short deadline,” Hoffman said. “We worked with a group of extremely diverse people who often butted heads, but in the end we came out with a great product that we were able to apply to the real world.”

Another student in Emery’s class, journalism and clarinet performance senior Alexandra Doyle, said she is thankful the class tied together her love of animals and making change in the community.

“I’m glad that Emery chose aniMeals on Wheels for us to support,” Doyle said. “Animal welfare is a cause that’s very near and dear to my heart. Some of these seniors who benefit from this program may not have friends or relatives that they visit with regularly, so their relationship with their animals are often essential to the health and happiness of these seniors.”

While the student groups have been competing against each other, they are united in the dual goal of getting a good grade and helping the cause. Doyle believes that the unorthodox final has helped her understand the entire field more.

“Most final projects are just exams or research papers that have no use beyond reiterating course material, but this has given our class a chance to use the skills we’ve learned in the course to make an actual difference,” Doyle said.

Donations for the campaign run through Thursday and can be dropped off at a box outside the Valenti School of Communication entrance or in Emery’s office in room 129 at the E. Cullen Building.

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Many of DuLaney’s pieces explore and question themes of power, pride and patriotism. He calls his works “self-referential,” as each piece contains the word “ART.” | Pablo Milanese / The Cougar

The tagline for the School of Art’s Annual Student Exhibition, which will run Friday through May 14, asserts the student creations will leave the studio and be displayed for the public. One piece of art, however, will not get to the museum in full form.

Even though first year M.F.A student Alton DuLaney finished his piece, which features a revolver, months ago, it will be exhibited without the gun in the Blaffer Art Museum after the UH Office of the General Counsel prohibited it.

“Ideally, the museum should be the one making that decision, not the police department,” DuLaney said. “My goal is just to bring attention to this whole situation, both the censorship and the fact that (handguns) will be allowed on campus in classrooms soon but not in the museum.”

DuLaney, who studies interdisciplinary practice and emerging forms, intended for his piece to be shown as he originally designed it: a revolver enclosed in a glass frame with a silk flag reading “ART” emerging from the barrel. DuLaney said he hoped his piece would be an innocuous statement and ignite conversations regarding campus carry.

After DuLaney created the piece, he contacted UHPD directly. His query was forwarded to the Office of the General Counsel, which said DuLaney would not be allowed to have the gun on campus. The piece will now hang in the exhibition without the revolver.

DuLaney’s piece will be displayed without the revolver in the Blaffer Art Museum from April 29 through May 14. | Courtesy of Alton DuLaney

“Under current Texas state law, firearms are forbidden on campus. The fact that they may be exhibited as part of an arts exhibition doesn’t change the analysis,” according to a statement from the Office of the General Counsel, which does not consider the prohibition as censorship.

“No guns are currently allowed on campus. We do not censor art,” said UH Chief of Police Ceaser Moore Jr. in an email.

DuLaney and IPEF Director John Reed, who approved DuLaney’s piece for the exhibition, disagree.

“In an art gallery context, this is my first example of censorship,” Reed said. “If somebody can’t express themselves, then it is censorship. Sometimes, we as a society feel that’s justified, and sometimes we feel that it’s not.”

In this case, Reed said the UHPD and General Counsel’s decision had no justification.

“The gun in the piece is really not available as a gun,” Reed said. “It’s mounted in a frame. It has a flag down its barrel. It’s unloaded, and it’s in an environment where security is watching it the entire time the gallery is open. Humorously, it would be far easier to walk in with your own gun than to come in, steal that gun, load it and then use it for something. It’s really not a safety issue.”

Reed called DuLaney a “wise student and mature thinker” who raises questions before stepping back and allowing the viewers to come up with their own answers.

DuLaney said he hoped his piece would encourage people to ask questions like, “By not allowing the gun into the the exhibition, was even more power given to the object, and thereby validated the power of the ART by censoring it?” and “Is a museum a sacred space?”

“I think that’s an artist’s job: put the question out there so that we have to deal with it, and that’s what he’s tried to do,” Reed said. “With or without the gun, the discussion has to happen. Whether (Blaffer Art Museum’s director and chief curator) Claudia Schmuckli’s version of the show or Ceaser Moore’s version of the show is what we see, Alton’s piece, luckily, will bring up the same discussion either way.”

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When Alyssa Whitman realized her fellow students need to take sexual assault more seriously, she was where all students are — on the Internet. She was scrolling through posts on a university freshman Facebook group, and members had commented with complaints about a required sexual misconduct training.

Concerned students like Whitman, a women’s gender and sexuality studies freshman, attended a screening of the documentary “The Hunting Ground” on Thursday at the Student Center South Theater held by the Women and Gender Resource Center just a few days before the end of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

“I feel like (students) say, ‘Oh, I don’t want to waste my time with this. I already know what I need to do and not do,’ rather than ‘What is the education that I’m missing? What are the resources that are available to me?’” Whitman said.

The film follows two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sexual assault student survivors, Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, who saw their cases mishandled by the university and fought back by filing a Title IX complaint against the institution.

The women then traveled to other college campuses to help sexual assault survivors use the anti-discrimination law in cases against their schools.

Following the screening, a panel discussion featured representatives from UH and the Houston Area Women’s Center.

Richard Baker, vice chancellor and vice president of Equal Opportunity Services and UH’s Title IX coordinator, spoke about state and national laws that protect victims. One state law requires Texas colleges and universities to inform students of sexual assault policies at freshman orientations.

In June 2015, another bill passed that requested public institutions create policies on campus sexual assault.

“New and fascinating things are on the horizon that would impact every institution,” Baker said.

As the Title IX coordinator, Baker helps students who have been victims of sexual assault. In his work, he adheres to the sexual misconduct policy and urges students to look it up on the Equal Opportunity Services webpage.

“It’s your policy,” Baker said. “It should be a document that reflects your values.”

Laura McGuire, the Sexual Violence Prevention and Education program manager at UH Wellness, encouraged students to get involved with a student advisory committee starting this summer. She said the committee members will inform her on issues surrounding rape culture and sexual assault on campus.

“We can’t just talk about what not to do,” McGuire said. “Changes are made on this campus because students demand them. It’s not perfected until you speak up.”

Whitman said she did not know about the resources available at UH — even as someone who considers herself an advocate.

Women and Gender Resource Center Director Devan Ford-McCartney said it is important to discuss the topic of campus sexual assault.

“I just want students to know they have a voice, which is one of the things that the panel talked about quite a bit,” Ford-McCartney said. “They should be empowered to advocate for themselves and advocate for each other.”

In 2014, the Department of Education released a list of higher education institutions with open Title IX sexual violence investigations. UH was not part of that initial list, but the university was investigated for unknown reasons in October last year.

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Did the flooding, storms and endless rain distract you from the news this week? Have no fear, The Cougar’s five things you might have missed is here to keep you up to date on world and national news.

Deadliest earthquake in decades strikes Ecuador

After a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Ecuadorian coast on Saturday, over 570 people died, with over 150 still missing and thousands injured. Over 23 aftershocks have rocked the area as it recovers from the country’s deadliest disaster since 1987.

“We’re facing the most difficult phase right now, which is rescuing victims and recovering bodies,” Ecuador’s Defense Minister Ricardo Patiño said. “We’re removing debris, and we will very likely find more bodies. It’s going to take us years to recover from this.”

After he declared the country in a state of emergency the night of the quake, President Rafael Correa announced Friday that he will raise taxes on all of Ecuador to help rebuild the towns hit near the coast. Correa said that may cost billions of dollars.

Leading candidates win key New York primary

In a key primary vote, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each won the Empire State with wide margins, solidifying Clinton as the Democrats’ front runner and giving Donald Trump more of an edge to secure the Republican nomination.

Trump won his home state with 60.4 percent of the vote, while Ohio governor John Kasich took second with 25.1 percent and Texas senator Ted Cruz came in last with 14.5 percent.

Meanwhile, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders took second with 42 percent and Clinton got 58 percent of the vote in the state for which she was senator.

American money will feature feminist and civil rights leaders

The secretary of the treasury Jacob Lew announced changes to the faces of American money, including placing Harriet Tubman on the front of the $20 bill and adding feminist and civil rights leaders to the backs of the $5 and $10 bills.

Tubman will be the first woman to be featured on the front of a United States bill in centuries. Five portraits of leaders in women’s rights, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul and Susan B. Anthony, will be added to the back of the $10 bill. The $5 bill will see additions of Eleanor Roosevelt and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The new designs of the bills will be revealed in 2020, but they won’t go into circulation until years later.

Prince dies at 57 years old

Revolutionary pop artist Prince was found dead in an elevator in his home in a Minneapolis suburb Thursday morning. Prince was 57 years old.

“It is with profound sadness that I am confirming that the legendary, iconic performer Prince Rogers Nelson has died at his Paisley Park residence this morning at the age of 57,” his publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, wrote in a statement.

The cause of Prince’s death is unknown, but he was briefly hospitalized the week before and was “struggling with the flu.”

2016 Pulitzer winners announced

The winners of the esteemed journalistic and creative Pulitzer Prizes were announced Tuesday afternoon, and few were shocked with the Drama award winner: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “Hamilton.”

Journalism prizes went to the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, non profits ProPublica and The Marshall Project, as well as smaller papers like Sun Newspapers from Charlotte Harbor, Florida.

A complete list of winners can be found here.

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Parking and Transportation Services announced via email today that the third party website it is using to sell parking permits has crashed indefinitely. | Courtesy of PTS

In an email sent out Thursday afternoon, Parking and Transportation Services informed students that the third-party website they are using to sell parking permits for 2016-17 crashed, and student permit sales are on hold indefinitely.

“Unfortunately, we do not currently have a timeline in place for when permit sales will resume, but as soon as we do we will send an email to all students,” Director of PTS Bob Browand said in a blog post.

PTS “soft launched” 2016-17 student permit sales Wednesday morning by posting on its Facebook page and sending out a limited number of emails to students, according to the blog post. Within 15 minutes the website crashed.

In March PTS announced on its blog that it would be limiting the number of student permits for 2016-17. If students were not able to purchase a permit in time, they would need to find alternate transportation or place themselves on a waiting list.

Before the website crashed on Wednesday, only 200 permits were sold out of 25,000 available, or less than 1 percent, according to the blog post.

“When the system is restored, we plan to monitor it before we distribute the campus-wide message,” Browand said. “Once we are confident that it is stable, we will then proceed with notifying all students via email. Once this happens, the number of people logging in will be substantial so intermittent lags are likely.”

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Enjoy the fountain while you can. It’ll be drained again after the debate leaves town. | Glissette Santana/The Cougar

Congratulations, students, faculty and staff. You’ve received an invitation to the coolest party in the U.S., and it’s happening this week. Fresh paint and newly planted flowers are all ready for the guests of honor to arrive. One of these guests could be our president in less than a year, and he’s on our campus.

Except — you may have seen the invitation, but you’re not on the guest list. The party may be in your house, the guests may be parking in your spot, the invitation sent straight to your inbox, but you can’t really go in.

Last week, it was announced that UH would be raffling off the coveted and extremely limited tickets to the Republican debate. Many students took to social media to question if there was any way to get access to such an important event involving the University we’re so proud of. Alumni, too, wondered if they had been included in the University’s planning.

But does this event really help the students?

Students will have to scavenge for parking because the University is closing multiple lots, and they may find getting around campus more difficult due to the absence of the campus loop shuttle. They’ll miss classes because of cancellations or the sheer inability to make it on time.

Blocked-off sections of campus present another obstacle, forcing students to adjust their routes to class.

The entire University will come to a screeching halt for this prestigious event, and the only way we can get in is pure luck?

The University only has 25 tickets to give out. Out of 42,000 students, not including faculty and staff members who applied for the raffle, chances are you’re not going.

After this week, University activities will revert back to normal. The fountains will be drained — again — and the fences will be put back up. We get one week in the national spotlight, which is great, but again, how does this help students?

“The more recognition, the more prestige your university has, it will certainly have a direct impact on your degree,” said Keith Kowalka, assistant vice president for student affairs.

“If you’re moving to Alabama or Wyoming or wherever and people have heard of the University of Houston as opposed to universities that you haven’t heard of… I think there is a recognition.”

But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to happen.

In 2012, Lynn University, a Tier Two institution, hosted a presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, and who’s ever heard of Lynn University? Technically, tomorrow’s event is not even a presidential debate; it’s a Republican debate, designed only to help determine the nominee of one party.

Still, this debate gives more status to UH, and we thank CNN and the RNC for choosing us. But the students here get little more than the ability to tell their kids, “hey, Donald Trump came and debated at my school once.”

They won’t say they got to see him.

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Enjoy the fountain while you can. It’ll be drained again after the debate leaves town. | Glissette Santana/The Cougar

Congratulations, students, faculty and staff. You’ve received an invitation to the coolest party in the U.S., and it’s happening this week. Fresh paint and newly planted flowers are all ready for the guests of honor to arrive. One of these guests could be our president in less than a year, and he’s on our campus.

Except — you may have seen the invitation, but you’re not on the guest list. The party may be in your house, the guests may be parking in your spot, the invitation sent straight to your inbox, but you can’t really go in.

Last week, it was announced that UH would be raffling off the coveted and extremely limited tickets to the Republican debate. Many students took to social media to question if there was any way to get access to such an important event involving the University we’re so proud of. Alumni, too, wondered if they had been included in the University’s planning.

But does this event event really help the students?

Students will have to scavenge for parking because the University is closing multiple lots, and they may find getting around campus more difficult due to the absence of the campus loop shuttle. They’ll miss classes because of cancellations or the sheer inability to make it on time.

Blocked-off sections of campus present another obstacle, forcing students to adjust their routes to class.

The entire University will come to a screeching halt for this prestigious event, and the only way we can get in is pure luck?

The University only has 25 tickets to give out. Out of 42,000 students, not including faculty and staff members who applied for the raffle, chances are you’re not going.

After this week, University activities will revert back to normal. The fountains will be drained — again — and the fences will be put back up. We get one week in the national spotlight, which is great, but again, how does this help students?

“The more recognition, the more prestige your university has, it will certainly have a direct impact on your degree,” said Keith Kowalka, assistant vice president for student affairs.

“If you’re moving to Alabama or Wyoming or wherever and people have heard of the University of Houston as opposed to universities that you haven’t heard of… I think there is a recognition.”

But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to happen.

In 2012, Lynn University, a Tier Two institution, hosted a presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, and who’s ever heard of Lynn University? Technically, tomorrow’s event is not even a presidential debate; it’s a Republican debate, designed only to help determine the nominee of one party.

Still, this debate gives more status to UH, and we thank CNN and the RNC for choosing us. But the students here get little more than the ability to tell their kids, “hey, Donald Trump came and debated at my school once.”

They won’t say they got to see him.

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You’ve seen them: the lot stalkers that prowl campus in search of parking. Some Cougars take on the obligation of waking up at 7 a.m. in order to find parking for one Friday class at noon. They may have to kill some time before class, but at least their spots are secure.

Other Cougars assess their limited options and give into illegal parking. Their spots aren’t bad, but they return only to find that their car’s been towed or tickets are flapping on their window. A select few Cougars brave the main aisles — darting between sections — in hope of finding that one free spot.

It’s not even noon, and the parking lot is a battlefield.

A Cougar in a blue Sentra streaks Cougar red war paint under their eyes and revs their engine. Their class is starting in a few minutes, and they use aggression and calculation to secure a spot.

Another Cougar drives a Camry armored with bumpers and protective gear. He’s heard about how intense the parking process is, and he’s not ashamed to wear a helmet and shoulder pads.

A girl in a Camaro with flames on the side has obviously come to get dirty. She’s got extended wheel spokes, and it seems as though she’s using the Statue of Four Lies (the statue in front of Cougar Village) as a jousting stick.

They file into the lot, one after one, using different strategies to reach their goal.

War Paint Cougar stalks students leaving their classes, creeping behind them to take their spot. This Cougar may even offer to give students a ride to their car in exchange for a spot.

Armor Guy plays it smart and finds a good vantage point wherein he can see leaving cars and slide into a spot. He distances himself in hopes of not seeming creepy, but he’s considerate to a fault.

Camaro Girl blazes down the aisles, leaving a trail of exhaust fumes and tire skid marks. She may not be the first to see a spot, but she sure as hell is the first to raise fists over one.

It’s 10 till noon, and Armor guy sees a spot two rows down.

He’s been waiting for this spot for 13 minutes, and he’s primed to go. He just manages to put his car in drive when he hears Camaro Girl speeding toward him. Her joust is ready and Armor guy is locked in place, fearing for both his life and his car. Just when he thinks it’s over, War Paint Cougar emerges from around the corner and blocks Camaro Girl, making way for Armor Guy to claim the spot.

In a rare and astounding display of Cougar solidarity, the victor nods at his ally and proceeds to pull into the spot.

Right before he parks his car, he looks up only to see that the spot he’s in is for handicapped students.

The search continues.

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