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RUN THE GAMETE: With student fees on...

By Jerry Hicks, with Cristina Lee and Helene Elliott
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RUN THE GAMETE: With student fees on the increase, UC Irvine’s student-run newspaper has raised a novel way for students to earn extra money: sell their sperm and eggs. Santa Ana’s Sperm Bank Inc. and the UCI/Saddleback Center for Reproductive Health do pay qualified donors. But the center’s Nancy Walker says student donors must be motivated by more than money. . . . “They must have altruistic reasons, or they likely won’t pass the psychological tests,” she says.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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