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When Hazing Hits Home: A Guide for Boerne Families Facing University Greek Life Abuse The Silent Crisis at Our Texas Universities: A City of Boerne Parent's Worst Nightmare Imagine your child—who grew up here in Boerne, attended Boerne High School or Champion High, spent weekends in the Hill Country—now sits in a dimly lit fraternity house near the University of Texas at San Antonio. It's "initiation week." They're exhausted, having been awakened at 3 AM for the third consecutive night for "mandatory study sessions" that involve humiliation, not homework. Their phone buzzes constantly with demands from a GroupMe chat: respond within 30 seconds or face punishment. They've been carrying a degrading "pledge fanny pack" for weeks. Tonight, older members are pressuring them to drink far beyond their limits as part of a "Big/Little" tradition. Someone films it on their iPhone. Your child feels trapped: wanting to belong, fearing exclusion, but increasingly aware something is very wrong. This isn't a hypothetical scenario. Right now, in Texas, we're fighting one of the most serious hazing cases in the country. In late 2025, we filed a $10 million hazing and abuse lawsuit on behalf of Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student who suffered catastrophic injuries during his Pi Kappa Phi pledge period. According to detailed media reports from Click2Houston and ABC13, Bermudez was subjected to extreme physical hazing—including being sprayed in the face with a hose "similar to waterboarding," forced consumption of milk and hot dogs until vomiting, and brutal workouts—that led…
