In my three decades in the profession I have served on an uncountablenumber of search committees. In recent years I increasinglyencountered an annoying (to me) practice among applicants, multiplevita entries for identically titled, and thus presumably identicallywritten, conference papers. I originally dismissed such practices asvita padding, a not well socialized, nor particularly wellaccomplished, applicant seeking to make his or her researchperformance look more impressive than it actually is.