The Dartmouth 03/02/16

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VOL. CLXXIII NO.42

LIGHT RAIN

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2016

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

DOUBLE TAKE: MEN’S TENNIS TAKES TWO

HIGH 38 LOW 7

College agrees to mediation over contamination

By ZACHARY BENJAMIN The Dartmouth Staff

TIFFANY ZHAI/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: MOUZON ’18 PAGE 7

Men’s tennis won two at home against St. John’s and Sacred Heart universities. SEE TENNIS PAGE 8.

HARTLEY: A SOLUTION TO THE GREEK CRISIS PAGE 4

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PAGE 4

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Hanover incentivizes ridesharing through parking

By JOE REGAN OPINION

The College has agreed to enter into mediation with Deb and Richard Higgins, a couple whose well was contaminated by carcinogenic chemicals originating from a nearby Collegeowned site, College spokeswoman Diana Lawrence confirmed in an email. In the 1960s and 70s, the College used the property, Rennie Farm, as a burial site for animal test subjects. The chemical, 1,4-dioxane, is known to increase risks of liver cancer and other liver-related diseases. Tests of the water in the well near the Higgins’ home found levels of roughly

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The town of Hanover recently started a pilot program with Upper Valley Rideshare in which commuters can coordinate carpools. Upper Valley Rideshare’s online platform will help users form rideshare groups, which are charged a reduced fee for parking in the Marshall Lot at 41 South Main Street. Users pay $35 per month to park in a reserved space in the Marshall

Lot with a vehicle registered to carry two or more people. Normally, a single space without the ride sharing program costs $56 dollars per month. Upper Valley Rideshare is a company that works within the Upper Valley to coordinate rides for residents of Hanover, Lebanon and the surrounding area. The free service is organized through Upper Valley Rideshare’s website, which requires customers to input commuter information and locations. The 24/7 service then uses this to match people together in a carpool.

Patrick O’Neill, Hanover parking division supervisor, said that this year, about $10,000 of the town’s parking budget would go to the partnership with Upper Valley Rideshare. A portion of the approximately $238,000 annual budget always goes to supporting alternative transportation programs, O’Neill added. He noted that the funds raised from parking meters and fines factor into the town’s budget. Across the country, rideshare programs have implemented similar

models to increase access to carpools. Joel Zlotnik, a Media Relations consultant for Orange County Transportation Authority, located in California, said “ridesharing is a small piece of the overall public transportation network.” Thomas McCaughey, a consultant for Metro Rideshare, a rideshare service in Los Angeles, explained that the website functions as a middleman between people searching for carpooling opportunities. Metro Rideshare SEE RIDESHARE PAGE 3

Aprahamian wins Cram Lehn Pedersen prize

By PRIYA RAMAIAH

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

As an undergraduate, chemistry professor Ivan Aprahamian stumbled upon the field of supramolecular chemistry while searching for a senior project topic. Last week, years after this discovery, Aprahamian was awarded the Cram Lehn Pedersen prize in the same field. Sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Communications Journal, the award is named after the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipients and recognizes significant

original work in supramolecular chemistry by emerging investigators, defined as chemists within 10 years of having received their doctorate degrees. Supramolecular chemistry is a field of chemistry that focuses on chemical systems in which molecules can interact and form larger functional units. Aprahamian received the award for his work on molecular switches, which he described as organic molecules that can be controlled using an external stimulus by changing some quality of in the molecule, such as shape or conductiv-

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These switches have a variety of interesting functions and applications, he noted, and are also helpful to the microchemistry community, as many have already been adopted by other research groups for use in their labs. “Recently a group in the UK incorporated one of our hydrazone switches into a nano-robotic arm that was used in transporting cargo at a distance of two nanometers,” Aprahamian said. Aprahramian said his lab has developed switches that can be acti-

vated using infrared and visible light, which could be applied to control the effectiveness of cancer drugs. Supramolecular chemistry also has applications in nantotechnology, drug delivery and data storage, As a CLP recipient, Aprahamian will be presenting at the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supermicrochemistry this summer in Seoul, South Korea. Aprahamian said that he first became fascinated with supramolecular chemistry when he had to select a topic SEE CHEMISTRY PAGE 3


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