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The Complete Guide to Hazing in Texas: What Families in Claude and Across Armstrong County Need to Know If Your Child Was Hazed at a Texas University, You Are Not Alone Imagine it’s a Thursday night in the fall. Your son, a freshman at a major Texas university, texts that he’s "studying with his new fraternity brothers." You don’t hear from him again until 3 a.m., when a roommate calls. Your child is disoriented, covered in unexplained bruises, and his urine is a disturbing brown color. He’s rushed to the ER, where doctors diagnose rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure—severe muscle breakdown from extreme physical overexertion. As he recounts the night, a horrifying story emerges: forced consumption of food until vomiting, hours of punitive calisthenics, being sprayed in the face with a hose "like waterboarding," all under threat of expulsion from the fraternity if he refused. This is not a hypothetical. This is the real experience of Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student, as detailed in a $10 million hazing and abuse lawsuit we filed in late 2025 against UH, the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter, its national headquarters, and 13 individual members. The chapter house where this occurred…
