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A Guide for Amherst, Texas Families: Understanding Hazing, Holding Universities & Fraternities Accountable, and Protecting Your Child When you send your child off to college from our quiet community in Amherst, you envision them gaining an education, building lifelong friendships, and finding their place in the world. You don’t imagine a phone call in the middle of the night, a frantic drive to a distant hospital, or the heartbreaking sight of your child suffering from injuries inflicted by people they trusted. For families in Lamb County and across the Texas Panhandle, the nightmare of campus hazing is a real and present danger, one that transcends the boundaries of any single campus. Right now, we are leading one of the most serious hazing litigations in the country—right here in Texas. We represent Leonel Bermudez in a $10 million lawsuit against the University of Houston, the Pi Kappa Phi national fraternity, its Beta Nu chapter housing corporation, and 13 individual fraternity leaders. The alleged hazing—which included 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”—left Bermudez with rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure, requiring a…
