Andy Watkins Cheating Scandal
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The Andy Watkins Cheating Scandal occurred in March 2013 when it was revealed that Andy Watkins had cheated at the 2009, 2010, and 2011 ICTs. The cheating was discovered during an NAQT inspection of computer logs in the wake of similar cheating by Joshua Alman, and Shantanu Jha.
Title Changes
- 2009 Undergraduate: Minnesota
- 2010 Division I: Chicago
- 2011 Undergraduate: Virginia Commonwealth
- 2011 Division I: Minnesota
Media Coverage
Unfortunately the cheating incident was uncovered just a month after 125 Harvard students cheated on a take home test in an introductory government class, and happened to coincide with Harvard's upset victory over New Mexico's basketball team in the NCAA tournament. The first report came from the Mahnattan based blog Gawker, and by the next day approximately twenty newspapers had written articles about the incident.
- "Epicenter of Evil"-the initial Gawker article [1]
- Harvard Crimson-feturing commentary (albeit very little) from Stephen Liu [2]
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune-featuring commentary from Andrew Hart and Mike Cheyne [3]