Word: tarver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dealer picked up a gun, cocked it and placed the barrel against Jay Tarver's temple. "If you don't do this," the dealer said, nodding toward four neat rows of cocaine gleaming on a round mirror, "I'll kill you." So Tarver, an undercover narcotics officer on the Houston police force, leaned over the old oak desk and snorted his first "rail" of coke. The high was a revelation, one Tarver still remembers with vivid longing...
...necessary "to be comfortable with sexuality." Tarver says, adding that he has found Harvard pretty straitlaced...The image of the Harvard man is still the Harvard...
Along with his participation with the GSA and Yearbook, Tarver was very active with the Democratic Club and was a member of the club's executive committee his junior year. He was also chairman of Harvard/Radcliffe students for Carter/Mondale for which every weekend he would go to different cities in New Hampshire to distribute leaflets. He says he did all this while taking Chem 20, adding he had become very "enamoured of Carter throughout his term in office...
Active in the GSA for the past four years. Tarver spoke on a panel discussion this year on the topic. "There is more to being gay than making love." For him, that "more" has included circulating gay rights petitions and literature throughout his House. This spring. Tarver extended his work with publications to become managing editor of the first issue of a GSA literary magazine, Lavender Portfolio...
...Tarver--interested in genetic research--says he hopes to attend medical school in 1983 and next year wants to work in a Boston or Cambridge hospital "in a clinical environment." All his various extracurricular involvements have taken their toll in "terms of my overall academic performance," Tarver adds, saying that for much of his four years, he went to classes in the morning, labs in the afternoon, and the Yearbook, the GSA or whatever in the evening. Homework was left for late at night...