Deferred Rush...I need the bad side

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Quick summary. I joined 3.5 years ago as a fall freshmen. Love every minute of my fraternity. I've been VP Communications, VP Programming, and President.

Just last year, campus administration decided to punish the fraternities, not sororities or greek life, by imposing deferred rush. Our rush numbers were an average of 20-25 signed bids per year with the majority in the fall. This number dropped drastically during this past year of deferred rush to only 8 total. This is not just with my organization, every fraternity is struggling and IFC is pushing hard for traditional recruitment.

The bad - Our Dean of Students announced that he has no plans to lift the deferment at this time. My class of 15 is graduating and will nearly cut the chapter in half. His logic is "that as greeks we are not living up to the standards that are for us". I see the problem being no clear standards. I was never told these if they were developed.

What I am asking for - Give me some concrete reasons/arguements I can use to fight this from happening. I fear that administration is trying to do away with fraternities even though we have put in hundreds of service hours, we personally raised our gpa from 2.504 to 3.1 in one year to avoid this again, and raise thousands of dollars for charity. I'm at wits end on what it is they want from us.

So if anyone has suggestions on getting IFC out of deferred rush it is much appreciated.