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A Message to Families in Mart, Texas: Your Guide to Understanding and Confronting Campus Hazing For parents in Mart and across McLennan County, sending your child to college is an act of profound trust and hope. You imagine lectures, new friendships, and bright futures. But for too many Texas families, that trust is shattered by a hidden reality on campus: systematic, dangerous, and often criminal hazing. When your student is the one who comes home with unexplained injuries, a withdrawn personality, or a story they’re afraid to tell, the confusion and fear can be overwhelming. You’re not just worried—you’re angry, and you need real answers, not platitudes. Right now, in a Harris County courtroom, our firm is fighting to provide those answers. We represent Leonel Bermudez in a $10 million lawsuit against the University of Houston, the Pi Kappa Phi national fraternity, and 13 of its members. The complaint alleges that during his fall 2025 pledge period, Bermudez was subjected to a regime of humiliation, forced labor, and extreme physical abuse. This included carrying a degrading “pledge fanny pack,” being sprayed in the face with a hose “similar to waterboarding,” and forced to perform hundreds of push-ups and squats. The…