To the editor:

As a supporter of both the Enterprise and Paul Smith’s College, I was surprised and disappointed to read Thursday’s article, which led with the words, “Paul Smith’s College not closing, but acquisition is in limbo.” This article, admittedly inspired by a like viewpoint published days earlier in the Adirondack Explorer, is nearly as misleading as the latter. The Explorer revised its doom-predicting headline, explaining in a recent editor’s note, “The headline of this article has undergone two changes, in order to help clarify for readers. An earlier version that referred to the ‘closing plan’ was misleading for some readers. We apologize for any confusion that may have caused.”

It is incumbent upon the Enterprise to do likewise to halt the stampede it has joined, in downgrading the most robust and important educational institution in the Adirondacks. This observation was confirmed when the Enterprise recently reported on the award by the state Department of Environmental Conservation of a multi-million-dollar grant extended to the college’s Adirondack Watershed Institute, perpetuating the innovative program, protecting our waterways from pollution, with operation of boat wash stations throughout the area.

Let the Enterprise “clarify” its article as well, more accurately reporting upon the college’s status with its financially helpful merger plan with Fedcap still pending before the educational regulators.

Lewis Rosenberg

Paul Smiths