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The Texas Hazing Crisis: A Comprehensive Legal Guide for Stafford Families If Your Child Was Hazed at a Texas University, You Are Not Alone Imagine receiving a call in the middle of the night. Your son, a student at the University of Houston, is in the emergency room. His urine is brown. Doctors say he has acute kidney failure from severe muscle breakdown—a condition called rhabdomyolysis. Through tears and pain, he describes being forced to do hundreds of push-ups and squats, sprayed in the face with a hose "like waterboarding," made to consume milk and hot dogs until he vomited, then forced to sprint immediately after. He carried a humiliating "pledge fanny pack" everywhere. He was hazed. This isn't hypothetical. This is exactly what happened to Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student and Pi Kappa Phi fraternity pledge in fall 2025. His story—and our ongoing $10 million lawsuit against UH, Pi Kappa Phi's national headquarters, and 13 fraternity leaders—represents the brutal reality facing Texas students today. If you're a parent in Stafford, Fort Bend County, or anywhere in Greater Houston, this scenario hits close to home. Your child might attend UH just 20 miles north, Texas A&M a few…