Coat and tie were gone by 1968, as many campus radicals chose either Dunster or Adams as their base of operations.

Around the House, Gore didn't make a splash. Had he not known Gore's background, Rosenblatt would never have guessed that Gore was the son of a famous senator.

Gore was easy to talk to and very approachable. "I always liked him very much," Rosenblatt recalls, describing him as staid and a bit stiff--qualities that Gore is often criticized for today. "It was interesting that those same qualities which one admires without taint or adulteration as a young man are sometimes questioned as an older man."

"The awkwardness that has set in has come from somebody who doesn't trust being boring...When he was a young man, he never had to dress up who he was," he says.

The lack of outward exuberance didn't mean that Gore was lazy--or that he couldn't have a good time.

He spent his Dunster days in C-entryway, on the fifth floor in his sophomore year, and on the third floor from then on.

Gore's roommate, Bart Day '69, was punched by a final club at the beginning of their sophomore year.