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QicivTL See people you know get hypnotized, see hypnotized volunteers sing like their favorite star. See your friends act like their favorite comedian. Girls, see guys from the audience turn into sexy male exotic dancers. Better yet.... Volunteer to get hypnotized, " It's a Blast." Women will be treated as ladies. Guys, you'll be on your own. Thursday, July 23rd 2 shows: 9:00 & 11:00 p.m. The Battalion fiTION Wednesday Plant inspection STI rHAMECORLU Heriberto Torres, a graduate student in plant pathology, inspects sorghum plants inoculated Tliesday afternoon at the greenhouse. Clinton seeks improvement in nation’s nursing homes, criminal background checks Clinton WASHINGTON (AP) — On Tuesday, President Clinton an nounced a series of steps to crack down on nursing homes that fail to give high-quali ty care to their pa tients. Clinton said he would ask Congress to pass legislation that would require nursing homes to conduct a criminal background check on workers and would set up a national registry of nursing home employees convicted of abusing residents. The legislation also would allow more employees to re ceive training in preventing malnutrition and dehydration and reauthorize the nursing home ombudsman program under the Administration on Aging. The ombudsman pro vides consumers with infor mation such as records of abuse and neglect at poorly- run nursing homes. The Clinton administration said it would reject Congress' suggestion that state inspectors can be replaced by inspectors from private, accredited agencies. After experimenting with that idea, administration of ficials have found it would not work. “They miss too much," Donna Shalala, the secretary of health and human services, said. “They actually put nurs ing home residents in jeop ardy. We are concluding, based on that experience, that we should continue with well-trained state inspectors." The Clinton administration also was taking several steps on its own, such as directing state enforcement agencies to impose immediate penalties on nursing homes that repeat serious vio lations. Currently, enforcers al low numerous opportunities for such nursing homes to come into compliance. The Health Care Financing Administration put new nurs ing home regulations in place three years ago. Since that time, quality of care has improved. The Department of Health and Human Services was submitting a 900-page report to Congress outlining its findings during that three- year period and making rec ommendations on how nurs ing home care can be further improved. HCFA announced a num ber of actions it would take to bolster state inspections, in cluding requiring that they be done annually in a less predictable manner. “They inspect every year, but they tend not to vary the time and the date," Shalala said. “We've said ... 'you've got to have a more random system so that people are surprised.'" Other steps taken by the administration include: —Targeting nursing home chains with a poor record of meeting state standards, so that they will be inspected more frequently. —Referring the most seri ous violations to the Justice Department for criminal or civil prosecution. —Cutting off inspection funds to states that continu ally have a poor record of cit ing nursing homes for sub standard care. —Increasing federal over sight of state inspections, and provide extra training and as sistance to state officials. —Publishing the results of annual nursing home surveys on the Internet. —Collecting information on patient care in a national automated data system, so that federal and state offi cials can identify problem facilities earlier. Strike disp CM, United Auto Wort ordered into arbitrdii FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Ait judge on Tuesday formally® the United Auto Workers and al Motors Corp. into arbitration^ the automaker's claim thatthc - lengthy strikes are illegal. District Judge Paul V. Gad' warned that any attempts to del prolong the arbitration may lit with a contempt-of-courtcitation! tines. He said his jurisdictional tends to enforcing any decisio award of the arbitrator. UAW lawyer Michael Nieto argued that the order was uM sar y and beyond the court's" diction. After Gadola lastwei monished the two sides toseh with independent arbit' 1 I homas Roberts, the automat its biggest union set the first be) 1 for today. As a result, Gadola's ordered a surprise. Lawyers for both sides! thought they could brief thejud| telephone, but he told themtooj into court. L If CM were to win its case,id® would ask for a back-to-worU® r ey/| from the court and seek financial ages that could cripple the ® Most legal experts say they doid'K automaker will win, butGMla" Frank jaworski was upbeat. „ "We're very pleased toda) the court has basically grant® what we asked for last week worski said. Nicholson declined to comm® ter the hearing. At issue is GM's contentiont strikes involve disputes of a nab-Jonal scope over which the union ma'Bates strike under the UAW-GM M th j contract. The union says thestrikM primarily over local issues,such*’ftech leged plant health and safety" 1 hons and production rules. Negotiations at the two _ Mich., plants where 9,200 w ) 0 .WJ' | tte walked off their jobs JuneSan Phrou sumed Tuesday, but no P r0 8 rtl5 j.«,. expected as both sides prepam 11 itnisi today's hearing. ttlPa< CM so far has lost more tha’’ hi 11 ion worth of production be of the strikes, which have fe Me jvere Flmornil shutdown of 25 assem blv OIILIILMDWU Gfl 1 , JnlVPMBon, • and partial or full s *]^ nts ^ more than 100 parts p North America JPasc ®his ne TM 2000 | which "W