The Hot Take with Wesley Episode 2
March 5, 2021
In this episode, reporter Wesley Barrett covers Texas politics after Winter Storm Uri.
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Wesley Barrett, Reporter
Wesley is a senior at Rock Hill High School, and this is his first year in News Paper. He's done debate all 4 years of high school and enjoys competing...
![A graphic created by Editor-in-Chief Gianna Ortner-Findlay features three women on a background of teal, the symbolic sexual assault awareness color. I think from an outsiders point of view, Im a big fan of asking questions, Rock Hill High School counselor Sarah Luce said. If something feels weird, I think [in society] we have this-this feeling of like, that is not my business. Im going to stay out of it. I think you do still have to protect yourself. According to RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, an American is sexually assaulted every 68 seconds and every nine minutes- that victim is a child.](https://hilltoptimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SA-Article-Featured-Image-475x475.png)
![This poster, created from a placard worn by mourning marchers in Memphis, Tennessee, just four days after Martin Luther King’s assassination, hangs on social studies teacher Mandy Murphy’s wall. “When he died, I just felt like it was really sudden, like when I was learning about it in school, like someone killed him,” junior April Grodger said, “and I was like, ‘why? He does so much for this country, and then you just had to kill [him].” Martin Luther King Day is a national holiday that happens on the third Monday of Jan. every year, while King’s actual birthday is on Jan. 15th.](https://hilltoptimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/82D1EBCD-F3EB-4E75-8159-F50220087A62-e1642461685914-356x475.jpeg)