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The Complete Guide to Hazing in Texas: What Hamlin Parents & Families Must Know When Tradition Turns to Trauma: A Hamlin Parent's Worst Nightmare It begins with a phone call no parent in Jones County ever wants to receive. Your child—the one you sent off to college at Texas Tech, Hardin-Simmons, or McMurry with pride and hope—is in the hospital. The story comes out in fragments: a "pledge event," older fraternity brothers, forced drinking, extreme physical exertion. The university calls it "an unfortunate incident." The fraternity says it was "voluntary." Your child sits bruised and traumatized, facing kidney damage from rhabdomyolysis, all in the name of "brotherhood." This is not hypothetical. Right now, just a few hours east of Hamlin in Harris County, we're fighting one of the most serious hazing cases in Texas history. Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student, allegedly endured months of abuse at the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter that left him with acute kidney failure and permanent health risks. His urine was brown from muscle breakdown. He spent four days hospitalized. The chapter is now shut down, but the damage—and the fight for accountability—continues. If you're a parent in Hamlin, Jones County, or…