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Newman Day (also Newman's Day), is a collegiate drinking ritual where 24 beers are consumed over 24 hours. It was long believed that it was named for the late beer-drinking actor Paul Newman〔http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/addiction-in-society/200809/paul-newmans-beer-drinking〕 and his apocryphal remark made during a campus speech: "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not."〔''The Daily Princetonian'': (Carol Lu, "If I had a nickel for every beer I drank today." ) April 24, 2007.〕 Another reported source comes from a scene in Cool Hand Luke, in which Newman’s character eats 50 eggs in an hour.〔http://www.liquorsnob.com/archives/2008/04/happy_newman_day.php〕 This tradition was first started by Kenyon College, where Paul Newman graduated. To this day, the tradition is still carried out by the majority of Kenyon students.. ==History== Recent research has shown references made to Newman Day in ''The Bates Student'' as early as the late 1970s, including alumni who remember days of cafeteria food fights following each year's celebration.〔''The Daily Princetonian'': (Carol Lu, "If I had a nickel for every beer I drank today." ) April 24, 2007.〕 One early Friday morning during Bates College Winter Carnival in January 1976, one of the original participants had read in a magazine article that Paul Newman (jokingly) claimed to drink 24 beers in 24 hours with 10 pushups between each drink. The tradition (originally named "Paul Newman Day") began in Herrick house with 3 Bates students participating. Today, participation in Newman's Day is arguably most robust on the campus of Bates College, where many students can be found consuming beers in their dorms and houses while attending classes and carrying out normal days including all academic obligations. To keep track of their progress, participants usually apply tick marks to their body with a marker. Newman opposed the tradition,〔''The New York Times'': ("Newman's Day — forget it, star urges drinkers." ) Retrieved May 27, 2007.〕 which received media attention in 2004 after Newman's lawyer sent a letter to Princeton and Bates registering Newman's disapproval,〔 and requesting that the event be disassociated from his name, due to the fact that he did not endorse the behaviors, citing his creation in 1980 of the Scott Newman Centre, "dedicated to the prevention of substance abuse through education". Princeton disavowed any responsibility for the event, responding that Newman Day is not sponsored, endorsed, or encouraged by the university itself and is solely an unofficial event among students. Celebration of Newman Day has continued, however, and participants indulge during the stipulated 24-hour period, during which participants are forbidden to sleep or vomit; sleeping or vomiting constitutes a "reset" that negates previous consumption, requiring the participant to restart from zero.〔anonymous primary source (alumni)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Newman Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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