German professor wins faculty award
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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.
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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 . . . The criminal
element is not going to bother to
get permits.”
‘‘Very few people feel like they
need a permit,” says Ray Bur
den, president of the Oregon
State Rifle and Pistol Associa
tion which has 800 members. “I
have weapons all over the place
and I never felt I needed one.
The sticky problem is that peo
ple who need them can't get
them in some places. It’s a
hodge-podge from county to
county.”
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