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Professor suspended over student’s claims Tomi Brunton Reporter
A business professor was suspended from his job over the summer after agreeing to comply with a protective order filed against him by one of his 18-year-old former students. Reb Beatty, 43, said he agreed to the Anne Arundel County District Court order requiring him not to contact the teenage student and to stay away from her home, workplace and school.
The teenage student said in the petition for protection that she had met Beatty as a 17-year-old high school student taking his accounting class at AACC, and that their relationship began shortly after her 18th birthday. The student accused Beatty of manipulating her, turning her against her parents and not allowing her to leave his home, according to the petition. In an email statement to Campus Current, Beatty said he plans to file a defamation
lawsuit against the young woman and her parents. The student did not respond to Campus Current's request for comment as of the newspaper's print deadline. Beatty alleged that the teenage student’s request for a protective order was “almost entirely comprised of exaggerations or outright lies. [The student’s] statement is an attempt to rewrite history.” In her petition to the Continued on Page 3
AACC adjunct makes homophobic remarks Jose Gonzalez Editor-in-Chief
Adjunct professor LaToya Nkongolo makes negative remarks about the LGBTQ community at a fundraiser. Campus Current archive
An AACC adjunct professor running for a seat on the Anne Arundel County Board of Education made negative remarks about the LGBTQ community at a June fundraiser.
LaToya Nkongolo, a mental health therapist who has taught human services courses at AACC since 2015, did not respond to Campus Current’s requests for an interview. But in a video of her June 22 remarks, Nkongolo said the county school system's pro-LGBTQ policies
age [years], you’re always going to be busy. You might as well get the flow going.” Blake, who won the race for SGA president in May, replaced communications student Zack Buster, who graduated in the spring and
Student Government Association President Jayeim Blake, center, plays goalkeeper for men’s soccer. Photo by Finch Cobb
SGA president plays goalkeeper for team Jose Gonzalez Editor-in-Chief
The new president of the Student Government Association doubles as a goalkeeper for the Riverhawks soccer team. Jayeim Blake, a second-year kinesiology stu-
dent, said he likes to stay busy. “The good thing about it is that at some point in your life you’re going to be busy,” Blake, an international student from Trinidad and Tabago, said. “Whether it be, like, when you’re in your adulthood or you’re in your teen-
A student won a protective order against her former accounting professor, Reb Beatty, shown in 2021. Campus Current archive
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are “causing mental illness.” The LGBTQ advocacy group Annapolis Pride and the Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County distributed a link to the video, along with a statement calling Nkongolo “irresponsible”
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