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I-i Caff lends PMWnff^UFI J. Janke, left, and Luke Leonard hang out at the Coffee House, 1324 P St, Friday night Members of Generation X Jossz - ' frequent Lincoln's downtown coffeehouses. jp ^ Coffeehouses offer options for Generation X $ Editor** Note; The following is part of a series of stories about ': Generation X. The stories are • meant to explain the generation and provide a glimpse into the lives of some of its members. By Made Baldridge Stmff Reporter V It seems like no one could spend more time trying to figure out the X generation than the peo ple in it. And they’re doing a heck of a lot of it over steaming cups of coffee. The coffeehouse scene is boom ing like it hasn’t since beatniks read bad poetry toeach other, snap ping their fingers in smoke-filled underground cafes. Di Danielson has worked at Lin coln’s own Coffee House, 1324 P St.,off and on for four years. She’s seen a lot of coffeehouse culture in that time. “In here it’s like a family, with the regulars,” she said. “People can ;come in here and spend 75 cents and sit for hours, play chess, talk.” Coffee A generation houses offered a place io nangoui and socialize, she said, espe cially for kids too young for the bar scene. “Lincoln is so w small, there w aren’t very many E laces to go,” she said. “They come ere rather than hang out at the mall.” Even with all her hours of obser vation, Danielson doesn’t know what to make of the twentysomething crowd. “I still havenrt figured that out yet,” she said. Twan Fox is 19 years old. A junior high school drop-out who wants to get her GED and go to college, she was under the custody of the state until her last birthday. “I don’t think our generation is — 44 I don't think our generation Is as stupid as some would like to believe. ~Fox 19-year-old Lincolnite as stupid as some would like to believe," she said. “People in my generation can go any direction they want. They just don't know what they want.” Randy Moilner is also under age. At age 20, he isn’t in school and he works at Denny’s restau rant. “People have said young people live in a moral vacuum," he said. “I don’t agree. I think we’ve devel oped our own morals based on un spoken rules. “I won’t respect my elders or my boss just because they’re my elders or my boss.*’ Moilner doesn’t know how to respond to the typical adult’s ques tion asking what he sees himself doing 10 years from now. “I hadn’teven thought about it,” he said. ww Some coffeehouse regulars are old enough to drink, and still they hang around consuming caffeine instead of alcohol. Erick Aspengren, 22, said he spent as much as 30 hours a week in coffeehouses. Aspengren said the values of his generation could be summed up by two things — eating and socializ ing. John Doan is 28 and still spends 20 hours a week in caffeine heaven. Doan drinks about two pots a day, he said. Doan, who also is the general manager of Cosmic Comics, said he found a career in a field he loves. But he still has doubts about the future. “You can’t be guaranteed any thing,” Doan said. “1 don’t think I’ve decided what I want to be yet.” Hunters set sights on season By Rainbow Rowell Staff Reporter_ With deer season under way, some UNL students are preparing for the thrill of the hunt—a thrill, they said, that has nothing to do with killing. Although James Byrd, a junior chemistry major, has been hunting with his father and brother since he was 5 years old, he said he has never killed a deer. “Some hunters will take shots that are on the edge of their range and that can lead to a wounded deer,” Byrd said. “I’ll only shoot if I’m positive I can kill it.” So far, that perfect shot hasn t pre sented itself. For Byrd, a member of the Chickasaw tribe, hunting is a way to enjoy the outdoors and spend time v with his family, he said. “It brings so many memories back," Byrd said. “It’s something we’ve al ways done.” Like Byrd, Rob Hinze, a junior anthropology major, said the camara derie of deer hunting kept him inter ested. Hinze hunts with his father, grandfather or fraternity brothers. “It’s great to get out and see the i high country, the plains,” Hinze said. “It’s being on the hunt, not the kQfmg. “You don’t really want to kill some thing that beautiful.” Nebraska’s deer season is divided into archery ami firearm categories. Archery, the longer hunting season, began Sept. 15 and will temporarily end Nov. 12. Archery resumes Nov. 22 and runs through Dec. 31. Fire arms, or rifle season, fills the break beginning Nov. 13, lasting only nine days. Bill Baxter, acting chief of the wildlife division of the Nebraska Game and Paries Commission, said the archery season lasted longer be cause killing a deer with a bow and arrow was more difficult than with a rifle. Byrd said Ire preferred archery to rifle hunting because it allowed him more time to enjoy the outdoors. Byrd said he’d been spending weekends at his hometown otNeligh to prepare for the season. Deer permits are available at the game and parks office. Hunters may purchase a maximum of two deer permits. This season, 40,000 permits were made available. Permits are $20 for Nebraska residents and $ 100 for non See HUNT on 6 New DWI law aims to L restrict youth drinking I By Michelle McGowan StatiRaportar___ Starting next semester, UNL stu dents could be taking a few more tests — Breathalyzers. A new law was passed this summer to discourage minors from drinking and driving. LB564, which lowers the legal blood-alcohol limit for drivers under 21, will probably affect a num ber of UNL students, a Student Legal Services official said. Prior to the law, which was signed by Gov. Ben Nelson in June, Nebras ka’s sole driving-while-intoxicated law pertained to anyone driving under the influence, regardless of age. Last year, 166 minors were cited for DWI in Nebraska. Under the current law, the legal blood-alcohol level for all drivers is below 0.10. The new law lowers the legal limit for minors to 0.02 or above. “This is basically any trace of alco hol on the breath,” said Karen Steinauer, an attorney for Student . Legal Services. Minors caught driving with a blood-alcohol level above 0.10 may run into double-jeopardy, she said. “Technically, you could be charged with both DWI and LB564,” Steinauer said. See ALCOHOL on 6