Man visiting campus

rushed to hospital
Paramedics rushed a man from Lawrence Hall to Sacred Heart Medical Center on Wednesday evening because he said he couldn’t breathe. The man said he was in his 40s, and was not a University student or a member of faculty or staff.
A nursing supervisor at Sacred Heart said hospital officials admitted the man and were examining him. The supervisor said at 9:35 p.m. she did not know if the man would be treated and released or be held for overnight supervision.
A 20-year-old University student phoned the Department of Public Safety at 7:59 p.m. to alert them to the man’s condition. DPS Sgt. Sean Strahon said the department sent two units to the scene at 8:04 p.m. to assist the medical team, which arrived two minutes later. He said the officers took a defibrillator in case the man’s heart had stopped, but they did not use it.
Paramedics checked the man, decided he should go to the hospital and placed him on a stretcher to carry him to an ambulance waiting on the east side of Lawrence Hall, Strahon said. The man said he was visiting the school.

— Eric Martin

LTD plans to cut routes
Lane Transit District is planning to recommend cuts to five bus routes at its March 20 board meeting, including the consolidation of the 78 West-Eugene-to-campus route into existing routes that indirectly serve the University.
LTD finalized a plan of action after reviewing public input at its Feb. 28 open house.
Spokeswoman Cosette Rees said the bus company received more than 150 comments from the community at the open house, including “at least a dozen” comments from students.
In addition to the five route cuts, LTD wants to make schedule changes to 13 routes, including the 11, which connects the University to Springfield and Thurston. It also wants to make this bus’s last evening run at 10:40 p.m., instead of 11:40 p.m.
The board meeting, which will be held at LTD’s 3500 E. 17th Ave. office, is open to the public and will start at 6:30 p.m on March 20.

— Brook Reinhard