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Hazing at Texas Universities: A Complete Legal Guide for Families in City of Riverside A Parent's Worst Nightmare Can Happen Right Here in Texas It's late evening. Your child, a first-semester freshman at a Texas university, texts that they're heading to a "new member event" at a fraternity house. You don't think much of it—they've been excited about joining. Hours pass. Then your phone rings in the middle of the night. It's another student, whispering that your child has been vomiting, can't stand up, and their "urine is brown." No one wants to call 911 because they're afraid of getting the chapter shut down. Your child is hundreds of miles away in Houston, College Station, or Austin, and you're sitting here in City of Riverside, feeling helpless. This isn't a hypothetical scenario. Right now, in Houston, we're actively litigating one of the most serious hazing cases in Texas. We represent Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student who suffered rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure after enduring horrific hazing from the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter. His urine turned brown. He was hospitalized for four days. The fraternity chapter has been shut down, but the physical and psychological damage to…
