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A week after the University of Houston's Pi Kappa Phi chapter was closed amid allegations of hazing, a prospective fraternity member filed a $10 million lawsuit against the fraternity and the university, claiming he suffered physical and mental anguish.

According to the lawsuit, filed last Friday in Harris County, the plaintiff claims he was hospitalized after being forced to exercise past the point of physical exhaustion. The lawsuit described the workout as including "high-volume ‘suicides,' bear crawls, wheelbarrows, ‘save-you-brother' drills, two-mile warmups, repeated 100-yard crawls, forced consumption of milk and food to the point of vomiting, and being struck with wooden paddles."

The prospective fraternity member, who is not a University of Ho

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