College says “NO COBing” - is this legal?

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Okay GCers here’s the situation, I’m helping to advise a chapter that would like to hand out COB bids to PNM’s outside of Formal Rush, but the school constantly is telling them that this is not allowed and is against policy. The way the system is set up now, you can only join a Greek Life Organization if you 1) go through Formal Recruitment in the Spring (there is no enforced total so organizations take as many members as they want) OR 2) GLO’s may participate in open rush for two weeks, during this time they can only ask students of Sophomore or above standing to join, or Rushee’s who dropped out of Formal Rush after attending two rounds.

Here’s the kicker, I have reviewed all of the school and student life policy’s and Greek Council bylaws and there is nothing written down to prohibit the women from handing out bids at any other time of the year. All of the above rules are basically hearsay. I have contacted the Greek Life Advisor, but the only answer I receive is that Professors don’t want students pledging year round and that’s why GLO’s can’t hand out bids 24/7/365.

I guess my question is where do I advise the chapter to go from here and what else can be done. My thinking is if the rule isn't written, then is it really a rule. Any impute either from a personal pov or just opinion would be appreciated, I feel like I'm starting to chase my own tail with this issue.