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Hazing in Texas: A Comprehensive Legal Guide for Hawley Families & Students If Your College Student Was Hazed, You're Not Alone—We Can Help For parents in Hawley, Jones County, and across West Texas, sending your child to college represents hope, promise, and opportunity. You trust that universities will prioritize safety and that student organizations will operate responsibly. Yet across Texas—from the University of Houston to Texas A&M, UT Austin to regional campuses near Hawley—students are being subjected to dangerous, degrading, and sometimes life-threatening hazing rituals under the guise of "tradition" and "bonding." Right now, in Houston, our firm is leading one of Texas's most serious hazing cases: The $10 million hazing and abuse lawsuit on behalf of Leonel Bermudez against the University of Houston, Pi Kappa Phi's Beta Nu chapter, its national headquarters, housing corporation, and 13 fraternity leaders. According to media reports including Click2Houston and ABC13, Bermudez was subjected to extreme physical abuse including forced consumption of milk, hot dogs, and peppercorns until vomiting, being sprayed in the face with a hose "similar to waterboarding," and performing hundreds of squats and push-ups under threat of expulsion. This led to rhabdomyolysis (severe muscle breakdown) and acute kidney failure, requiring four…
