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...general, Freshman Caucus members tend to look down upon those council members who they see as trying mainly to pad their resumes and to admire those who stand apart from politics and focus their energies on making council events successful...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: Undergraduate Council is Reform Material for First-Years | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

Dickerson states that the HRC did not pad the membership rolls in order to have a certain far-right slate elected in club elections last February. But when the HRC's membership list is inspected and a great number of members are found to be roommates, girlfriends, boyfriends and otherwise politically apathetic members, one has to wonder whether or not the HRC's elections were conducted in an upright manner. Moreover, when some of these roommates and dormmates are reputed to have claimed to have only paid half of club dues in order to vote, the integrity of the entire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HRC Distorts Truth and Image | 6/6/1995 | See Source »

...Bone (HarperCollins; 390 pages; $22). And that is how I got lost, and the story got kind of lost too. Not that I was doing that well before, with my mother and stepfather kicking me out for shoplifting, and having to crash at my friend Ken's pad, which was taken over by some really stupid but also scary motorhead bikers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: FLOAT TRIP | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...accused the founders of the new RepublicanAlliance of wanting to pad their resumes with thefounding of a new organization...

Author: By Michael M. Luo, | Title: Republican Groups Trade Insults, Allegations | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

...NORMAN MAILER STILL ROCKS BACK and forth on the balls of his feet when he talks. He still leaves the impression of a compact nuclear device as drawn by Herblock--shaking slightly on its launch pad, Yoda-shaped and oracular, although somewhat mellowed by the years. He is capable now of an occasional shrug that says, "Who knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ON OSWALD'S TRAIL | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

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