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Hazing in Texas: A Complete Legal Guide for Highland Park Families If Your Child Was Hazed at SMU, UT Austin, Texas A&M, or Any Texas Campus—You're Not Alone Picture this: Your son from Highland Park is a new member at an SMU fraternity just minutes from home. What began as exciting "bonding" has become something darker. He's receiving texts at 3 AM demanding immediate responses. He's exhausted, losing weight, and making excuses about mysterious bruises. When you ask directly, he clams up—"It's just tradition, everyone does it." Then you see a group chat screenshot where pledges are ordered to drink until they vomit, followed by sprints "to build brotherhood." Your child isn't at some distant university; this is happening right here in the Dallas area, at schools where Highland Park families have sent generations of students. Or perhaps your daughter at UT Austin—a school where many Highland Park graduates continue their education—has become withdrawn and anxious. Her texts mention "mandatory study sessions" that last until dawn, humiliating costumes, and threats that speaking up will get her "cut." She's afraid to tell you everything, afraid to quit, afraid of what her newfound "sisters" might do. This isn't parental anxiety. This is…