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The Definitive Guide to Hazing, Accountability, and Your Legal Rights: What Every Quitaque, Texas Family Must Know For parents in Quitaque, Briscoe County, and across the Texas Panhandle, sending your child to college represents a proud milestone filled with hope. Yet, there’s a hidden danger that doesn’t appear in university brochures: the brutal reality of modern hazing. You trust that campus is a safe place for growth, not a venue for coercion, humiliation, or life-threatening abuse. Right now, in Houston, we are fighting a case that shatters that trust and exposes the systemic failures that put students at risk. In November 2025, we filed a $10 million lawsuit on behalf of Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student who nearly died after being hazed by the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity’s Beta Nu chapter. The details are harrowing: forced to carry a “pledge fanny pack” filled with humiliating items, subjected to hose spraying “similar to waterboarding,” and compelled through extreme physical trials until he developed rhabdomyolysis—a severe muscle breakdown—and acute kidney failure. His urine turned brown, he was hospitalized for four days, and he faces the risk of permanent kidney damage. This is not an isolated fraternity “prank”; it is a…