State officials are allocating $383,000 to provide emergency call boxes, satellite phones, and all-terrain vehicles to help victims of shark attacks on the Outer Cape – but nothing so far to prevent them.
Six Outer Cape towns are getting the money, including Truro and Wellfleet, where major shark attacks took place last summer. On August 15, a 61-year-old man in the water off Truro was seriously injured by a great white shark, sustaining wounds to his hip and torso that required extensive hospitalization. On September 15, a 26-year-old man in the water off Wellfleet was killed by a great white shark.
Harvard graduate students who belong to four identity-politics groups are complaining that several college officials haven't supported them enough.
The administrators have treated the students as "separate but equal," the students said, using the language of the 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld government-enforced racial segregation.
