CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters)-Harvard University will be stripped of four national quiz Championship titles after the organizers found a competitor of Ivy League school improperly accessed information on the questions used in the tournament.
The national academic Quiz tournaments said that a security review found that Harvard competitor Andy Watkins access pages on its website just before the administrative 2009, 2010 and 2011 Intercollegiate championship tournaments or "Quiz Bowl".
"We cannot have that happen," said Robert Hentzel, NAQT President, said Friday.
Quiz organizers said their review found that Watkins have access to Web pages that showed the first 40 characters of questions to ask in tournaments, although he said he had no direct evidence or statistic that Watkins and three others took advantage of their prior access to game situations.
& Restaurant Schönau, Chairman of the group, said sometimes that even the first 40 characters of an application can tell.
At the time of the review, Watkins was working for the organizer of the quiz as a writer for the competitions of high-school levels. The NAQT said that Watkins was terminated as a writer.
Watkins denied any wrongdoing.
"My immaturity damaged my relationship with popular NAQT and questioned three remarkable realizations from undue three teams of Harvard, said Watkins, in a statement released by the organization."I'm sorry my question security breaches ... Although I know everyone will make their own judgments, did compete in good faith. "
A spokesman for Harvard declined to comment on the news.
The academic setback for the prestigious school of New England came a day after Harvard scored a rare Athletic triumph-winning his first game in the College Basketball Championship.
It follows an incident last year when dozens of students were forced to retreat temporarily from the University after cheating on a final exam in the largest academic scandal to hit almost four-century-old school in recent memory.
The national academic Quiz tournaments said it would vacate all of Harvard WINS at the Division I events in 2009 until 2011 and recognizing other teams as national champions.
Named the University of Minnesota as champion in 2009; the University of Chicago as a Division Champion in 2010; the University of Minnesota as a Division Champion in 2011 and Virginia Commonwealth University as University champion in 2011.
(Edited by Scott Malone and Andrew Hay)
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