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...Perez's legacy dominates Plaquemines, an anachronism in the South and an affront to Southerners who like to think that racism has migrated North. Parish-owned Port Sulphur Hospital has segregated waiting rooms. There are two hurricane evacuation plans-one for whites and another for blacks. Joycelyn Mackey, a 29-year-old black, found that out during a hurricane threat in 1975 when she was refused admission to the refugee center at Belle Chasse School and sent to a nearby U.S. Navy station. There are even two bookmobiles, each serving primarily...
Beaulieu feels that Satch was "too laid back," that he didn't drive his players hard enough. Mackey echoes Beaulieu's concerns, saying "Joe needs to be pushed, to be motivated...
...people who cautioned Joe about Harvard was his high school coach, Kevin Mackey, now assistance baseball coach...
Throughout high school, Mackey was a paternal figure for the fatherless Beaulieu, and Joe feels secure that he will be playing at BC under a man who is more than a coach, and who will push Joe's talents to their limits...
Royce N. Flippin Jr., athletic director at Princeton, disagrees with Mackey. "The real key is not what sport it is, or whether it's Ivy League or not, it's the quality of the program. If the student thinks he or she can excel he'll come, hardnosed inner-city kid or not." But Flippin admits that personal contact between coaches and players is often necessary to remove misconceptions about Ivy League athletics--especially in sports such as basketball and wrestling, two "inner-city" sports in which Princeton is the Ivy League champion...