As some students look forward to hibernation during winter break, others plan to be in class five days a week for Winter Term.

Western officials, with the help of more aggressive advertising, hope they can keep those students with Winter Term dreams when classes start Jan. 4.

The Division of Extended Learning and Outreach has increased promotion of information about Winter Term deadlines and fee penalties this year to keep more students in Winter Term classes, said Alicia Bingham, DELO administrative assistant.

Leah Frazier, an Academy of Math and Science senior from Russell, was taking senior-level math and science courses as a sophomore in high school — and she was bored.

Frazier said her mother laughed when Frazier told her she was applying to the academy.

“She said there was no way I was going to leave her two years early to go five hours away, but when she saw this place, she said, ‘You need to be here,’” Frazier said.

Frazier is one of 10 students from eastern Kentucky enrolled in the academy. There are 122 academy students.

Tim Gott, director of the academy, said recruiters are especially focused on getting more students from the eastern part of the state.

Students wait between classes at the Glasgow campus. Campuses in Glasgow, Elizabethtown and Owensboro account for nearly a fourth of the total enrollment at Western, according to the Fall 2009 Total Regional Campus Enrollment Report. ARIANA MCLAUGHLIN/HERALD

Students can turn their overdue book fees into good deeds at Western’s libraries this month.

The libraries are accepting canned food in exchange for overdue book fines through Nov. 20, said Paula Bowles, Library Public Services senior circulation assistant.