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Hazing in Texas: An El Lago Parent's Guide to University Accountability & Student Safety If Your Child Was Hazed in Texas, You Are Not Alone For parents in El Lago, Clear Lake, and across Harris County, sending a child to college is filled with hope and pride. We watch them leave our community for institutions like the University of Houston, Texas A&M, or UT Austin, trusting they'll be safe while pursuing their future. The nightmare begins when the phone rings with news that isn't about grades or new friends, but about injury, humiliation, or worse—hospitalization due to hazing. Right now, in our own backyard, we are fighting one of the most serious hazing cases in Texas history. We represent Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student whose fall 2025 pledge period with the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter allegedly involved forced labor, systematic humiliation, and extreme physical abuse that culminated in rhabdomyolysis, acute kidney failure, and a four-day hospitalization. As detailed in the Click2Houston report on UH Pi Kappa Phi hazing case, Bermudez was subjected to degrading "pledge fanny pack" rules, forced consumption of milk and hot dogs until vomiting, hose spraying "similar to waterboarding," and brutal workouts at…