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A Message to Parents in Ropesville and Across West Texas You sent your student to college with pride, hoping for academic success, lifelong friendships, and a bright future. The last thing you expected was a late-night call from a hospital, a panicked text about a “bad night” with the fraternity, or a sudden, unexplained change in your once-vibrant child. Hazing—the dangerous, degrading, and often illegal rituals tied to campus organizations—is not just a problem at distant, sprawling universities. It is a reality at schools throughout Texas, including those where families from Ropesville, Lubbock County, and the South Plains send their children. Right now, our firm, Attorney911, is actively litigating one of the most serious hazing cases in Texas: the $10 million lawsuit 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. The allegations are severe: forced consumption of food until vomiting, extreme physical workouts, humiliation with a "pledge fanny pack," and being sprayed in the face with a hose "similar to waterboarding." This conduct allegedly caused Mr. Bermudez to develop rhabdomyolysis—a severe muscle breakdown—and acute kidney failure, leading to brown urine and a four-day…