PFFFFTTT goes the Fun

Says Jennifer Gardy, of (I admit it) my next to favourite blog. Over the years as undergraduate counts soar, degrees become more competitive, and employment becomes less sure the "fun" has slowly been leaking out of Canada's campuses. While her measurement of fun is fairly narrow - consisting of mostly beer and the opposite sex - it is undoubtedly a proud tradition of fun that Canadian Uni's have been well known for. What happens when students stop pranking? When they stop hitting the sauce, debating and creating things that sharp thinking mature adults never would? Is this a critical step in adolescent creativity, discovery and exploration that has gone missing, and is our education more impoverished for it?