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Last week’s column, about the chopping down of Paul Smith’s College’s major landmark and school logo, the Leaning Pine, had some inaccuracies in it. I said that because the college prez, Dr. Buxton, hated everything about the state, he wouldn’t have had the miscreant arrested, but would’ve punished him with instant expulsion. On that count, I was two-thirds wrong and one-third right. First, there wasn’t one miscreant, but two. And second, one of them was arrested, and both of them settled the issue by paying the college $2,500. (And just for perspective: In 1972 dollars, $2,500 was the cost of a new Ford Fairlane.)