Article: BYU students sell plasma to earn money

Jennifer Bigler
University Wire
10-02-2003
(The Daily Universe) (U-WIRE) PROVO, Utah -- Selling plasma at the Alpha Plasma Center in Provo helps some Brigham Young University students pay their bills.

Students receive an average of $20 a donation, making it possible for them to earn as much as $160 a month.

"I applied for a job, but until I hear from them, I plan on doing this [donating] to make a little money and to feel a little bit of satisfaction of helping someone, maybe," said James Evans, a BYU student from Austin, Texas, majoring in international finance.

Over 70 percent of the donors at the Alpha Plasma Center are students wanting to make money during college, said Jeff St. Clair, ...

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