after Defendant became very upset. Defendant started telling Ms. Warren that other students in the class were looking at Ms. Warren in a sexual way. Defendant became very jealous of these other students and accused Ms. Warren of having a special relationship with them.
After meetings involving Defendant and senior staff members at the college, Defendant was suspended and informed she was not to have contact with Ms. Warren or come to Cape Fear Community College. On 3 February 1997, Defendant received notice of her suspension and confronted Ms. Warren in her classroom, tore up a piece of paper in her hand, and stated that "if [Ms. Warren] thought that this was sexual harassment, she was going to show [her] what sexual harassment was." Security removed Defendant from thepremises.
Defendant left notes on Ms. Warren's desk at the college in January 1997. On one of them, she opened the note with "Dear Snow White" and signed it "Dopey." On another, the salutation read "Dear Beauty" and was signed "The Beast." On a note opening with "Dear Kay," Defendant signed it with her name. In addition, a colleague left a note on Ms. Warren's desk at school, which subsequently disappeared. Defendant later admitted to taking it and apologized.
In the fall of 1997, Ms. Warren started receiving telephone hang-up calls. She received *475 approximately fifty calls in three days. Through the telephone company she was able to track the source of the calls. Detective Jerry Collins Ludlum testified that in October 1997, Ms. Warren filed a report of harassing