Paul Newman has appealed to Princeton University to end a campus tradition in which participants binge drink, trying to consume a beer an hour for 24 hours.
Newman's Day, set for today, derives its name from an apocryphal quote attributed to the actor: "24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not."
On Newman's Day, students have been known to show up for class inebriated or with beer poured into coffee mugs. The university was sent a letter last week calling for the tradition to stop.
The university responded that it does not sanction the event.
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