The Board of Regents approved a 99-year lease with Friends of the Lost River Cave Inc. for the Lost River Cave property on Thursday. The board also approved selling the property adjacent to the cave, where the visitor center is located, to the nonprofit organization for $1.

Nathan Hayes is protesting the gun-free campus policy this week by wearing a silk-screened handgun on his T-shirt and hanging an empty gun holster from his belt. Hayes, a Louisville senior, is Western’s chapter leader for the national right-to-carry group Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.

It’s been nearly five years since a student was raped, sodomized and set on fire after returning to her dorm from a Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity party. While the family of Melissa “Katie” Autry is preparing for the anniversary, Western continues to address security issues that arose out of the murder.

Students will pay about $280 more for tuition a semester beginning this fall, President Gary Ransdell said at the faculty and staff forum on April 17. Last semester, officials planned to stabilize the tuition increase at 6 percent beginning in the next academic year until the 2011-12 academic year, the Herald previously reported.