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If you don't succeed in changing the administration's position though, you will need to adjust how you think of things. You can plan on a new member group in the fall being mainly sophomores or juniors and then focus on freshmen in the winter. You can think of new ways to meet potential members such as offering tutoring services to freshmen. Don't just accept that it will destroy your system if they don't budge! You can find ways to make it work for you. I think that how well deferred recruitment depends on a lot of thing, but the biggest issues on some of the campuses that I assist with are housing and finances. You have to plan to fill your house with men who will be juniors and seniors the following year rather than with sophomores, since they won't be initiated until housing contracts are signed. I would definitely do all the things that others have suggested to try to get things changed, but simultaneously start planning for a different way of doing business, just in case.
Dee
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