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"For decades, US college dramas and films have polarized the nation’s academic communities into jocks and nerds. Nature, naturally, would tend to side with the latter. So, it’s alarming to learn that the jocks at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) want to ditch a valuable (maybe even nerdy) collection of scientific samples to upgrade their running track." (Nature)http://www.nature.com/news/natural-history-collections-face-fight-for-survival-1.21805