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Hazing at Texas Universities: A Comprehensive Guide for Goliad Families If you are a parent in Goliad, your deepest instinct is to protect your child. You’ve supported them through high school, cheered them on, and sent them off to a Texas university with hope for their future. The last thing you expect is a phone call—or worse, a visit to the emergency room—because your son or daughter was brutally hazed while trying to join a campus organization. Right now, in Houston, we are fighting one of the most serious hazing cases in the country. Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student and pledge of the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter, suffered catastrophic injuries in the fall of 2025. He was subjected to extreme physical and psychological abuse, including being sprayed in the face with a hose "similar to waterboarding," forced to consume massive quantities of food until he vomited, and made to perform hundreds of push-ups and squats under threat of expulsion. The result was rhabdomyolysis—severe skeletal muscle breakdown—and acute kidney failure. His urine turned brown, he was hospitalized for four days, and he faces an ongoing risk of permanent kidney damage. The Pi Kappa Phi chapter has been…