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The Knox City Family's Complete Guide to Hazing at Texas Universities: Laws, Cases, & Holding Fraternities Accountable A Night No Texas Parent Should Imagine Picture this: your child from Knox City, excited to start a new chapter at a major Texas university, decides to join a fraternity or sorority in hopes of finding community and building lifelong friendships. The first weeks are filled with excitement. Then, the dynamics change. It's "family tree" night at the off-campus fraternity house. Under the Texas sky, your child is pressured to drink far beyond safe limits, one shot after another as older members chant encouragement. The night blurs into forced calisthenics, humiliating rituals, and a creeping fear that saying "stop" means social exclusion. When someone collapses, there's hesitation—no one wants to "get the chapter in trouble." That hesitation could be deadly. This isn't just a story. For families in Knox City and across Knox County, this nightmare became reality for the family of Leonel Bermudez, a student at the University of Houston. Right now, we're fighting his $10 million hazing lawsuit against UH and the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter involving alleged forced drinking, extreme workouts, and degrading hazing that led to rhabdomyolysis,…