Possible Clues:

• The most flashy individual abandoning university: isn't it naturally attractive?
• TA going after reported crowd-puller...
• Poems penned by officer, single chap, the focus of attention
• Natural magnetic ore
• It sounds as if ballast might be so attractive
• Quality associated with Lear's first poems - it's attractive
• Magnet school's head has style - on dole, unfortunately
• How the sound of rocky ballast makes quite a magnet
• Criminal needs loot to be focus of attention
• Magnetic mineral