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Hazing in Texas: A Complete Guide for Navarro County Families and Parents of College Students If Your Child Was Hazed at a Texas University, You Are Not Alone Imagine your child, a freshman excited to find their place at a Texas university, accepting a bid to join a fraternity, sorority, Corps program, or athletic team. What starts as camaraderie and tradition takes a dark turn. They are told to carry a degrading "pledge fanny pack" at all times. They are ordered to chauffeur older members overnight, losing sleep and missing classes. At an off-campus house, they are forced through extreme workouts—hundreds of push-ups and squats until their muscles scream. They are sprayed in the face with a hose, a tactic described as "similar to waterboarding." They are made to consume milk, hot dogs, and peppercorns until they vomit, then forced to sprint. Days later, they collapse, passing brown urine. A frantic trip to the emergency room reveals a nightmare diagnosis: rhabdomyolysis (severe skeletal muscle breakdown) and acute kidney failure, requiring multi-day hospitalization and facing the risk of permanent organ damage. This is not a hypothetical. This is exactly what happened to Leonel Bermudez, a student at the University of Houston…
