Delzene Moncrief of Lansing, Mich., waits for the California Zephyr at the Amtrak station in the Haymarket early Thursday
morning. Moncrief rides the train to Lincoln to visit her granddaughters.
Amtrak
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efficient and essential to rural states like Ne
braska,” Exon said in a press release. “It is a
critical part of the nation’s transportation net
work.”
The Rail Investment Act encourages Amtrak
to seek cost savings by increasing cooperation
with inter-city bus services, developing new
sources of revenue and expanding publicity
efforts.
David Bowden, manager of International
Tours of Lincoln, said Amtrak could not launch
aggressive advertising campaigns like airlines
could.
He said about 5 percent of the people who
booked tours through his agency did not even
know Amtrak was an option.
“Amtrak’s at a disadvantage,” he said. “They
run one train a day through Lincoln, and Lin
coln alone has 11 or 12 jets departing the same
day.”
But Amtrak’s popularity soars in the sum
mer, he said, and it is a popular option for
college students who want to take the train to
Winter Park, Colo., during the ski season.
“When airlines charge $400 to get to Den
ver, a $ 120 train ticket can look quite cheap,” he
said.
libraries
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percent in the past five years.
If the latest budget request were granted,
UNL would be able to retain current subscrip
tion levels, or at least reduce the amount cut,
Hendrickson said.
“We’re still talkingabout trying to stay even,”
he said.
However, subscriptions will be 14 percent
higher again next year, Hendrickson said.
The libraries canceled $350,000 in subscrip
tions this year, but Hendrickson said the Ath
letic Department stepped in and pledged money
from national-championship profits.
Pill-Soon Song, chairman of the chemistry
department, said the cuts in library subscrip
tions had wide-ranging effects on the depart
ment. He said graduate research, grant proposal
writing, original research and faculty morale all
had been damaged by the cuts. '
“Perhaps the most devastating effect of this
is the faculty morale,” Song said. “They see that
these important journals are being cut because
of the budget and they get discouraged.”
Song said the budget increase for the librar
ies was important for research at UNL.
“The budget increase is not going to mean
additional subscriptions,”he said. “If sgoingto
maintain what we’ve got.”
Also, the subscription cuts have started to
affect the university in the two areas where it
hurts the most: its pocketbook and its students.
Hembre said the cuts made it harder to get
grants because they impeded the professors’
abilities to compete. He said the university took
in $40,000 from every $ 100,000 in grant money
he received.
The university makes almost $2 million a
year from the almost $4 million in grants the
chemistry department brings in, Hembre said.
Hendrickson said undergraduate and gradu
ate students had been hurt by the cuts. He said
the library had tried to protect students, espe
cially undergraduates, by retaining some of the
more general journals. „ t
The journals that will,be cut first are the
specialized and expensive science journals.
Some journal subscriptions cost as much as
$17,000 per year.
Hendrickson said that when those special
ized journals were cut, the libraries lost the
topics they represented.
“It’s not like a subscription to Time, where if
Time doubles their price we all go subscribe to
Newsweek,” he said. “There’s not that type of
competition.”
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