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German professor wins faculty award D.. A A V#l M. a p-/np« a Of the Emerald Gerltian Prof. Thomas Nadar says he once thought of the German language as “ugly, harsh and guttural — all the stereotypes.’’ But after a stint as an ex change student in Austria, Nadar changed his mind. The enthusiasm Nadar brings into his classes has led Mortar Board to name him professor of the month. He has taught at the University for only six months. Like other languages, Ger man is not a static manner of speaking, Nadar says, but many students don’t realize that. “The problem is that when you learn a language, you think Grammar ‘hidden’ in comedy, song it s in a book. You think it exists in these beautiful sentences — very, very neat, precise and grammatical.” Nadar usually spends his summers in West Germany dis proving that theory. As he ex amines “how much the lan guage has changed in the space of a year," he finds many "Americanisms.”’ Some Americanisms are words that "creep in” from American popular culture, com puter technology, politics and airline usage, Nadar says. Others are “funny” grammatical contructions adapted from English. One of the current ones is the German adoption of the English word "jog," Nadar says. "It’s so funny to pass by a store window with a display of running shoes and see a sign saying Let’s jog' in German." Germans have adopted the word completely, conjugating it as though it were a German verb. Many Germans consider the use of such Americanisms "chic,” Nadar adds. But there's no avoiding it — learning German is a lot of hard work. "You can’t avoid the gram mar," Nadar says. His classes, conducted half in English, half in German, have grammar lessons in English. One difficulty is that most peo ple haven’t studied English grammar, he says. So Nadar’s grammar is couched in songs, readings and comics such as ‘‘Peanuts.’’ He devotes Fridays to grammar ex amples "hidden within that fun. ” In addition, he has conversa tion periods in class to suggest the Germans' experiennce of "being bombarded by their lan guage constantly.” Knowing German is important in the business world, Nadar says. German capital investments in the United States continue to grow. Recently, a large German restaurant chain bought the In ternational House of Pancakes chain. "For years, it was Germans learning English," Nadar says. Now learning German can in crease an American’s chances for employment with German firms, he says. The Mortar Boards’ nomina tion box is located at the en trance to the education-psy chology section of the Universi ty library. Nominations are open to all students. Winners are an nounced on the 10th of each month. State takes shot at gun permit law SALEM (AP) — Whether it’s a vestige of the Old West or a response to crime in the 1980s, Oregonians are tenacious about their right to own guns. However, the right to carry those weapons concealed is a different question and one that may have created some strange political allies in the 1981 Legislature. To carry a concealed weapon, a permit is needed from the local sheriff and each sheriff has his own ideas about who is entitled to one. Legislation (HB2421) has been introduced in the Oregon Legislature this session to take the discretion away from the sheriffs and impose uniform statewide standards. While the bill is sponsored by gun owners groups who feel standards are too strict in some counties, the idea also has support from some gun control advocates who feel standards are too lenient in other counties. Despite opposition from the sheriffs, the proposal may have a good chance of legislative approval if the various gun owners groups, legislators and other interested parties can agree on what the statewide standards should be. r One goal of the measure, sponsors say, is to force Mult nomah County to issue more concealed weapon permits. Us ing perhaps the strictest stan dards in the state, Multnomah County handed out only five permits from 1978-1980. This has irked many gun owners, including a state legis lator who says he was refused a permit even after he told the sheriff his life had been threat ened. “I own a .380 automatic. I bought it because of a threat," says Rep. Drew Davis, D-Port land, who also owns other guns for sports. ‘‘With crime and everything going up the way it is, if people need to carry a weapon it should be a right that people have . . . 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