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Patrick Hite: The man behind the emails KELSEY CHARLES Staff Writer kcharles@smu.edu
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Monika Korra, a cross country runner at SMU, competes at an invitational in 2010.
Korra stands strong
Survivor starts “kill the silence” movement ERICA PENUNURI Staff Writer epenunuri@smu.edu Mayor Rawlings’ advocacy against domestic violence and rape is a new initiative by the city, but even before his campaign, more Dallasites have been speaking out, including SMU graduate student Monika Korra. “You see it on the news all the time and we think, ‘that will never happen to me. That will never happen in my area or to anyone I know,’ and suddenly I was there,” Korra said. Korra is a rape survivor and her story has been told many times, including by ESPN’s “30 for 30.” “I was kidnapped by three men leaving an SMU party. I had friends with me and we had a friend to come and pick us up but suddenly I had a gun to my head and got dragged into a car. And then you’re helpless.” According to Nick Chamberlain,
the owner of the Chamberlain Self Defense studio, it’s possible to avoid these situations. “They [women] need to keep themselves safe and they need to take ownership of themselves. They need to be empowered to protect themselves and keep themselves out of trouble,” Chamberlain said. Chamberlain has recently been receiving more requests for selfdefense workshops. One of those requests came from ‘Girls Rock Dallas’ organization. The rock camp organization empowers girls through music. But this time, it was the instructors that were being empowered; not by music but by self-defense moves. “You at least have some preexisitng knowledge as to how to fight back and when that situation happens to you. You’ll probably remember at that moment, ‘Oh yeah I learned that at that one class,” Courtney Veronica Rose Thompson said, after learning some
key self defense moves like creating physical space between you and your attacker. “It’s really good for women to have that power, you know, over them -- over their body, over someone else trying to get to their body,” Jessica Perry, another newcomer to the selfdefense class, said. Monika Korra never took the classes but she believes they play a key role in spreading the word. “It’s one way to create awareness about it and it is a way to make women more confident about that we can, we can get out of a situation like that. And it also makes us think and makes us create a safe environment ourselves,” Korra said. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 93 percent of rapists will never spend a day in jail and only 20 percent of cases are reported. These statistics are striking, but Monika Korra refused to be
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another number. The former SMU track and field, cross-country student faced the men in court and placed them behind bars. She also gave the public her name, her story and her strength. She is now encouraging others to do the same. “There’s so many girls out there, living without telling what happened to them. And I realized when I shared my story with people -- how much that helped me in my healing,” Korra said. Monika holds public speaking events, began the Monika Korra foundation to start a movement to “kill the silence” and is waiting for her first book to be published. “That’s the reason I’m doing good today, why I won my life back.” Korra currently serves on SMU’s Sexual Assault Task Force, which was created by President Turner to review SMU’s policies towards sexual assaults.
“Come in,” he says when he hears the knock on the door to his second floor office in the Memorial Health Center. “Let me finish this quick little email.” He taps away at the computer on the large wooden desk at the back of his office. The room is filled with family photos of his wife Janice and his three grown children, Monica, Ryan, and Colleen, along with trinkets-mementos from his stint in the Navy and various service awards that he has won through SMU and the Rotary Club of Plano. His bookshelf is filled with colorfully bound books and binders, carefully organized by topic and year. Many students at SMU may know his name, but few truly know who Patrick Hite is. “All I know is that I get his emails pretty much every day and the flu shot one stands out in my mind,” said SMU junior Katie Bernet. “Everybody says they get too many emails — they’re all deleted.” “He sends a lot of emails, but they’re all informative,” said SMU freshman Jackie Sweeney. “[Sometimes] they’re kind of annoying.” The tapping stops as he finishes
his email and triumphantly presses the send button. He turns around and flashes a warm grin. Piles of papers are stacked carefully in front of him, organized in neat fashion with binder clips. Hite is much more than the name behind the emails. He’s a dedicated family man with strong Midwestern roots and a serviceoriented leader who has devoted much of his life to helping others. He goes by Patrick, but only at the workplace and on his emails- Pat is what his friends and family call him. “I usually have Patrick on there because my whole life they always thought I was a woman. Healthcare is dominated by females, so they always assumed I was a ‘she’ instead of a ‘he’,” said Hite. “I sign everything by Patrick again so they don’t make a mistake.” Calling him detail-oriented would be an understatement. In the little free time that he has, Hite enjoys playing golf and volunteering at Christ United Methodist Church near his house in Allen. He and his wife, a dental hygienist, have been active members there since 1998. He is also the membership chair at the Rotary Club of Plano Sunrise. Despite his fondness for email, Hite is still old-fashioned. He prefers hand-written notes to electronic ones and plans to go to the library
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Patrick Hite has worked at SMU for 17 years.
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SMU Fashion Week to host kickoff party
Mayor calls on Dallas men to “Man Up” and say no to domestic violence
MEREDITH CAREY Staff Writer mbcarey@smu.edu
Marissa Budzynski Contributing Writer mbudzynski@smu.edu
The second annual SMU Fashion Week is beginning its five-day fashion extravaganza with a bang, hosting a kickoff party at the Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station at 6 p.m. Monday, April 1. “The kick-off party serves to join SMU with its Dallas community in celebrating the start of the exciting week ahead,” said senior Daniella Lopez, SMU Fashion Week Event Coordinator. A short walk from campus, the party will feature popup shops from Movida and Urban Outfitters, who both have permanent shops within Mockingbird Station. The event, hosted by Lisa Petty, of the local Dallas fashion blog DFW Style Daily, and Wallflower model Adam George, is free and also offers a free screening of The September Issue outside on the Angelika Film Center’s mezzanine at 7:30 p.m. SMU Fashion Week chose
Thousands crowded the plaza outside of Dallas City Hall Saturday morning for Mayor Mike Rawlings’ Rally Against Domestic Violence. The rally was part of Rawlings’ greater campaign to reduce the prevalence of domestic violence in the Dallas community. Rawlings called on the men of Dallas to change their attitudes towards domestic violence. “You can call a guy who hits a woman a lot of things, but you cannot call him a man,” Rawlings told the crowd. Nearly 85 percent of victims of domestic violence are women. The Dallas Police Department alone receives approximately 13,000 calls for domestic violence each year. Even more cases go unreported, said Alyssa Greene, community coordinator for Genesis Women’s Shelter. “A lot of women are suffering in silence because they don’t feel like they can speak out against it,” she said. State Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas)
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A model struts down the runway at SMU’s Fashion Week show in 2011.
to change the location of the kickoff party to the Angelika Film Center because the theater and SMU Fashion Week share a passion for supporting fresh, upcoming talent. Students and guests will also enjoy music by DJ Blake Ward while receiving manicures and pedicures from Castle Nails, also located permanently in Mockingbird Station. While snacking on the kick-off party’s Urban Taco
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Mayor Rawlings hosted a rally against domestic violence Saturday in front of Dallas’ City Hall building.
and state Rep. Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) joined together to tell rally attendees of the steps that the state government is taking to combat domestic violence. Proposed legislation includes creating a registry of repeat abusers, as well as a “Three Strikes Act.” Those found guilty of domestic abuse at least three times will be guaranteed to spend time in jail. “DV will no longer be tolerated in the Big D,” West said.
Many Dallas athletes also made appearances at the event. Football legends like Emmitt Smith and Roger Staubach, as well as current Dallas Cowboys Brandon Carr and Dez Bryant, took the stage to share their views on domestic violence. Rawlings joked that it was “amazing that the men of Dallas are this excited about something that’s not about sports.” But it was serious business the sports figures were about.
“If you have any women in your family that you cherish, take a step back and think about how you’d feel if someone laid a hand on them,” Carr said. Dallas has already been recognized by Congress for being one of the first cities in the country to take such a stand against domestic violence. Rawlings hopes that everyone, regardless of race or political affiliation, can work together to eliminate domestic violence in Dallas.