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RECRUITING MINDS AND BODIES
Provost and Professors Played Tough Front Line

By Harry Press

n the extremely competitive world of football recruiting, how do you persuade members of the tiny pool of high school seniors, academically eligible for Stanford, to choose the Farm?

Call out your brains, not your brawn.

At a recent Faculty Club brunch, Stanford's renowned provost ­ all 5-foot-8 of her ­ left spellbound 16 of the nation's outstanding grid stars, huge fellows all. Why should they choose Stanford? she asked. Because this university can take you where you want to go in sports and beyond, even as far as the White House staff.

Eddie Gayles, running back from Renton, Washington, will be one of 22 football recruits coming this fall. Here, he is with Professor Robert Simoni


“You think right now you know what you want to do,“ Condoleezza Rice, provost and political science professor, said. “Perhaps you want to study political science or law or engineering. Don't be in a hurry. Give yourself time and you'll find your passion.“

She didn't find her passion ­ Russian studies ­ until her senior year at college. And that, she explained, led her eventually to the federal government's top level. After several years as the specialist on Russia for the

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