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The Truth About Hazing at Texas Universities: A Guide for Covington & Hill County Families If you are a parent in Covington, Texas, and your child has left for college, you trust they are safe. You imagine them in classrooms, libraries, and dorms. But there is another reality on campuses across Texas—in fraternity houses, sorority lodges, Corps dormitories, and athletic facilities—where a hidden culture of abuse persists. It’s called hazing, and in 2025, it is not a relic of the past; it is a present, urgent, and often brutal danger. Right now, in Houston, we are fighting one of the most serious hazing cases in the country on behalf of a young man and his family. In late 2025, we filed a $10 million lawsuit against the University of Houston, the Pi Kappa Phi national fraternity, and 13 individual members of its Beta Nu chapter for the catastrophic hazing of our client, Leonel Bermudez. The details are horrific: a "pledge fanny pack" filled with humiliating items, forced overconsumption of food until vomiting, being sprayed in the face with a hose "similar to waterboarding," and extreme physical workouts that led to rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure. His urine turned brown. He…
