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
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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
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expanded its membership -to
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the admission of New Zealand
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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.
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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
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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.
Ford has no announced opposition, but Sen. Howard Baker,
R-Tenn ~ was reported Tuesday to be testing sentiment for a
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Saturday at a Professional
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The conference, sponsored
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seek permanent and seasonal
jobs and practicums, ac
cordings to Sussan Alters,
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