How does the economy affect numbers?

[kddani]

So we all know that the economy absolutely sucks. The unemployment rate is the highest in quite awhile, people are losing jobs and taking pay cuts right and left.

Do you think that this is having an affect on numbers and on greek life in general? Both girls going through rush and girls that may pledge or are already members?

My school was a more working-class kind of school (it's a hybrid private/public), so it was nothing unusual to have one or two girls drop because of money, or decline bids because of it. Then there are always sister struggling to pay their bills (almost everyone in my house held a job, only a few people's parents paid their sorority costs). I wonder how this year's new members and sisters will fare....