TOGETHER: social alternative By 808 HAMILTON Collegian Staff Writer TOGETHER, the new social club sponsored by the Graduate Student Association, is an alternative. It is an alternative to patronizing a noisy, crowded bar to meet people. It is a place to talk other than a party, where wall-to-wall people can be enough to make a person talk to him self. It is not group therapy or GSA’s ver sion of a lonely hearts’club. It is a rational approach to the task of meeting others, according to originator Barbara Buschell. At a TOGETHER meeting people get a chance to express opinion on the night’s discussion topic. Topics are generally personal, such as, “How do you get out of a romantic relationship you no longer want to be part of?” “People don’t enjoy talking about their feelings, afraid to,” said Kissinger requests oil price floor PARIS (UPl)—The United plates lormally asked its leading allies yesterday to keep their oil prices at a level igh enough to encourage peedy development of lomestic energy resources. I'he price-floor plan, developed by Secretary of date Henry A. Kissinger, was übnntted at the opening of a nree-day session of the In ernational Energy Agency’s nverning board. It was designed to t lengthen the consumers’ bargaining hand in talks with the powerful 13-nation organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. ■ OPEC's quadrupling of oil prices has pttg the balance of payments of many Western ORGANIZATIONAL .^JVIEETING ASfea r TONIGHT Jig? 3 7:30 369 WILLARJ A c Valentimely~ c l^eminder □ Wife Q Nephew □ Husband D Sweetheart □ Mother □ Neighbor □ Father . O Fribnd ,□ Secret Pal □ Daughter □ Classmates * □ Brother □ Father-in-law □ Sister □ Mother-in-law □ Aunt O Son-in-taw □ Uncfe D Daughter-in-law □ Granddaughter O Cbusin □ Grandson O Godchildren □ Niece □ Godparents Valentine’s Day Friday, Feb. 14 Remember all your loved ones with thoughtful - Hallmark Valentines and gifts. 130 E. COLLEGE AVE. Pam, one of the participants. (The last names of people quoted have been withheld by request.) “Something like this is good because if a guy just comes up to me on the street and starts a con versation, I want to talk to him but I wonder about his motives,” she said. TOGETHER also seems to benefit the older student. P “As a 29-year-old undergraduate I find it hand to communicate with students 10 years my junior,” said Conrad. And Bill, a middle-aged graduate student, said; “The older student finds many problems in State College. He doesn’t belong to the faculty. He can’t relate to undergraduates. And it is dif ficult for him to relate to townspeople. They are permanent and he is tran sient. He is nowhere.” J TOGETHER is also a good ex perience for a single woman, ac cording to Chris, a divorcee visiting nations heavily in the red, slowing down economic growth. Undersecretary Thomas 0. Enders, a top Kissinger aide, told newsmen before the start of the lEA conference that the price-floor plan,! originally announced Mojnday in Washington, was the only way to create a “market balance between ; producers and consumers.” “II is essential, to have a position of this kind to have in piace and in advance a right bargaining balance when we get to talk to the producers,” Enders said. I Conference sources said member nations jmay speed up work on various joint energy plans, most of them the campus from Philadelphia. “This is terrific, the. discussion was very worthwhile. In a singles bar the people who talk to me only want to make it with me,’’she said. . A TOGETHER meeting can be a learning expedience. “In discussions like this you find out how little you know. And that’s sometimes hard to swallow,” Bill said. “But that’s good,” added George, a doctoral condidate, “because you also find out how little everyone else knows.” According to Buschell, one of the best things about TOGETHER is the lack of pressure on a person to respond in a socially acceptable man ner as there would be at a bar or a party: “It is just a place where people can come and talk and hopefully learn something about the others they are taking to,’’she said. fathered by' Kissinger, because of the threat of a new lug of war with the oil cartel. OPEC nations are con sidering a Kuwaiti request for a possible new oil price in creasel because of the steady drop of the value of the dollar in which the West makes all oil payments. In Caracas, however, Venezuelan Mines Minister Valentin Hernandez said the current $lO to $ll dollar per barrel price level set by OPEC would remain in force over the next nine months. “We feel that the current price, set by OPEC, is equitable and we have taken a very firm stand on this,” he said. The lEA, set up last fall to tSffxooll fikuchaMf V FAMOUS MAKER o^<3fiicitfa3&m£dJsoot IncrepirlE value •' Sjfe JTAJF 214 E. College Ave. centre cinema * FRAXftOYJCH S'.'.OC' r !►>< BOTfERFMES ARE FREE GOLDE • Torvite Fri-Sun 7:30 & 10 105 Forum cope with the energy crisis, expanded its membership -to 18 nations yesterday through the admission of New Zealand as a full member and Norway as an aTssociate. *' Other members are the European' Common Market nations except France, the United States, Japan,- Canada, Australia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and’- Turkey. France’s President Valery Giscard d’Estaing said Tuesday night the latest Kissinger plan should be discussed only after a preparatory French sponsored meeting of oil producers, consumers and developing nations he wants to hold in Paris in mid-March. Simmons $.75 j > The Daily Collegian Thursday; February fi, 1H75—7 Senators to launch campaigns WASHINGTON (UPI) Bentsen of Texas 1976 run, and the Republican speculation also included former yesterday scheduled a press conference Feb. 17 to make of- Gov. Ronald Reagan of California, who has taken on an ex ficial his unannounced campaign for the Democratic tensive speaking schedule. presidential nomination. ' Jackson sought the Democratic nomination in 1972 but His Senate colleague, Henry A. Jackson of Washington, never came close to Sen. George McGovern. He was—and already [has bought national television time tonight, to for- remains—a favorite of Democratic Party “old liberal" malize his own hard-running but unannounced candidacy. regulars, and despite some recent tiffs with AFL-CIO chief- In setting times for their announcements, both senators tains, is expected to have strong labor backing for his 1976 sought tp_prolong suspense about their plans. But since each effort. 1 reported raising more than $1 million in the “planning” stagesßentsen, a first-term senator, is expected to make a dual of their campaigns, a decision by either to pull out would be a pitch for support. He is a “new face” on the Democratic scene major political surprise. and he is counted among the ranks of “New South” politicians The expected entry of the two senators will increase the" who have turned away from traditional segregationist Dixie field of formally announced Democratic candidates to five, politics. Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz., former Gov. Jimmy Carter of r; m Georgia and former Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma already /\ y vwnn* 1 O/i ■f have launched official campaigns. 1 1 - wC III 111 ICll OC ll Former Gov. Terry Sanford of North Carolina also is an active bpt unannounced Democratic candidate. Sanford, now president of Duke University, has said he will make his decision this spring. When Sen. Walter F. Mondale, D-Minn., decided late last year to forego a 1976 presidential campaign, speculation began that another Senate liberal might be encouraged to step into the vacuum. Gov. George Wallace of Alabama remains a likely but unannounced 1976 Democratic candidate, but has not made up his mind whether to run. and former Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota, who sought the Democratic nomination in 1968, is a declared third party candidate for 1976. The Republican field for 1976 is occupied alone by President Ford, who yesterday repeated his intent to run for the office he succeeded to without election. 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