The Michigan Daily-Friday, October 12, 1979-Page 9 LSA SOPHOMORE 'WORKED HARD' >First woman picked as ROTC commander By DON WYATT Being a female in a "man's" army ooesn't bother Cathy Leistikow, the fir- $f woman battalion commander of the uiniversity's Army ROTC program. In fact, when Leistikow gives orders they are usually the first to be followed. "SHE SIMPLY gets around the macho in men. She doesn't sweet talk tiem but tells them what has to be d'ne, and they do it," said Major Joe Blair, chairman of the Army ROTC p'togram. ;Leistikow, an LSA sophomore, is the first woman to hold the prestigious commandership position in any of the services on campus and in the state of Michigan. But Blair insists that Leistikow is not a "token female." "She got the job because she worked hard to get it. There is no way I could have picked a better qualified leader than Cathy," Blair said. SOME OF Leistikow's qualifications include a three-year stint in the Army "to see the world' and a job in Korea as commander of the FM radio station serving General John Cushmen. After her tour of duty was over she passed up an offer to re-enlist and decided to return to school - in hopes of someday becoming an officer. "Basically, I went back to school to become an officer," Leistikow said. "It's not that officers get privileges, but I liked the fact that I would be more in- volved in the planning operations and I could use my own ideas." LEISTIKOW SAYS, however, that being a woman in her position is not particularly advantageous: "Maybe if I do well, people will say 'that girl did a good job.' But it really boils down to - I wanted the job, worked hard to get it, and eople think that it is really neat that Y got the job. The fact that I am a woman is just a matter of circumstan- ce." Aside from Leistikow's ROTC duties, she is also a supervisor at Bells Greek Pizza and carries a 16 credit class load. After Leistikow graduates from the ROTC program in the spring, she will be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve 6ntil she graduates from the University in the Fall of 1982. "CATHY HAS the potential to be a general, no question about it," Blair said. "Not only is she qualified, but other women look up to Cathy just for who she is, not because she is female." "She is a leader," Blair added. Ii Q~ i'r Vxn tes to c Eb6r t t@&- 75 6ircf~az z eR 13 octo~er SPm-tan House votes to lift price controls on domestic crude oil' The University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society announces: Petitions for the Spring Show to be produced April 13-19, 1980. Those interested in petitioning for positions of dramatic. director, orchestral and/or vocal director, and set designer are asked to call 764-0951 by Thurs., Oct. 18 for further information. Ui rtf zj czKE a.-D)4 V Cf2 fri1ars, 6( jo~iiiczixInkde be JZZ bZX12~, zand rocK roll %.~ From AP and Reuter WASHINGTON -The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday voted over- vwhelmingly to support President Car- ter's plan to increase domestic crude oil production by gradually lifting price controls. By 257 to 135, the House defeated a piroposal to reimpose controls on the price of oil discovered prior to the 1973 Arab oil embargo. This oil now accoun- ts for about two-thirds of total domestic p'roduction.- The vote supported the president's order lifting price controls on all domestic crude over the 28 months beginning last June 1. The president estimated his executive order would raise daily production by 750,000 barrels by the mid-1980s. ,CONGRESSMEMBERS favoring the president's plan argued that controls have subsidized and increased oil im- ports by making the price paid by American consumers less than the world price. However, Congress members arguing for the continuation of controls said that the higher fuel prices that wouldresult fromremoving controls would be inflationary and give a bonan- z4 to oil companies. The House also rejected, on a 243-124 S ls-wveeping proposaT to stap ndicese trots back on home heating oil and diesel fuel. THE CRUDE OIL vote came as the Douse considered legislation authorizing Department of Energy programs for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. 'House liberals argued that the price control phase-out that Carter began on June 1 was lining the pockets of big oil companies at the expense of U.S. con- sumers. Imported crude oil, whose price is set ,by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, now costs around $23 to $24 a barrel - roughly twice the average controlled price of U.S. Oil. BUT WHITE House allies .in the House argued that despite the added burden on consumers, the higher prices triggered by deregulation would en- courage conservation and the search for new U.S. oil supplies. A coalition of Republicans and con- servative Democrats joined forces with the administration in defeating the move to block the phasing out of con- trols on crude oil prices. The vote removed the most serious obstacle to Carter's deregulation plan, which has never been in serious jeopar- dy in the Senate. It also reversed a non- binding vote by House Democrats last spring that renounced Carter's oil pricing policies. HOUSE SPEAKER Thomas (Tip) O'Neill, citing fuel oil prices of over 90 cents a gallon in parts of the country, told reporters "there is a great feeling that the price should be pegged somehow by the federal government." The Massachusetts Democrat said many Americans in cold-weather states are far more troubled by the price of heating oil than they are about gasoline prices of over $1 a gallon. Oil price deregulation has been por- trayed by the Carter administration as an essential action in the drive to spur the search for alternatives to oil impor- ted from memberi of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. In two separate non-binding votes, a majority of House Democrats previously went on record in favor of reimposing price controls on both crude oil and petroleum products. COY2E ezart v z forf-ree-! _ _ IN SEARCH of THE UNION "' w m * I a II US a ISBith L 75th Birthday 75th Birthday IDENTIFY THESE 5 UNION SITES & * WIN.2 OHIO STATE TICKETS * (50 yd. line tickets) 1. Submit entry to Office of Student Organizations, Activities, and Programs--1310 Union. 2. Use entry form (availble at office) or your own paper-enter as many times as you want. 3. 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