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The Definitive Guide to Hazing Lawsuits & Campus Accountability for Smiley County & Gonzales County Families A Message to Parents in Smiley, Nixon, Belmont & Across Gonzales County Imagine your child from Smiley—who worked hard through Smiley High School or Nixon-Smiley Consolidated ISD—now attends Texas State University, Texas A&M, or the University of Houston. They want to belong, to make friends, to build their future. Then comes a late-night call, a hospital visit, or a sudden withdrawal. Your once-confident student now seems broken, secretive, afraid. They've been stripped to their underwear in freezing weather, forced to consume dangerous amounts of alcohol or food, or subjected to psychological torment disguised as "tradition." This isn't hypothetical. Right now in Harris County, we're fighting one of Texas's most catastrophic hazing cases: the $10 million lawsuit filed on behalf of Leonel Bermudez against the University of Houston, the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter, its national headquarters, and 13 individual fraternity leaders. According to the Click2Houston investigation, Bermudez developed rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure after being forced through extreme workouts, hose-spraying "similar to waterboarding," and humiliating "pledge fanny pack" rituals. His urine turned brown. He was hospitalized for four days. The chapter was shut…