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Show U1111 REV IE 0 FRONTRUNNER, 1347, LV 1.21.2013 The Independent Student Voice //uvureview.conn WE'RE IN THIS TOGETVER 37 points is a career high for Hunsaker and his eight 3-pointers matches a record for 3's in a single game. I'll" /1/1////////// fflIMIBBIBRE //////// WI/ 1/ //// llill//// wow, /// LI ll uk-ILic7 t Nails Hat! r-c7b,u,u_irts SPENCER HARRIS/UVU REVIEW Senior forward Nick Thompson, junior guard Holton Hunsaker, and junior center Ben Aird all have achieved great heights this season individually. The Wolverines still have a long way to go as a team with 11 games left on the season. If individual accomplishments can come together, the Wolverines won't be stopped By Alex Rivera Sports Editor Twitter @HashtagginAlex Three can be a company but for the Wolverines, it hasn't been enough. The Wolverines have had some players give impressive outings on the basketball court, but the overall team was not rewarded for them. Senior forward Nick Thompson posted UVU's first ever triple-double in a win over Austin Peay back in December. Thompson had 13 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds to topple over the Governors in the Dr. Pepper Classic. But a game later against Chattanooga in that same classic, the Wolverines fell despite another great individual effort from Holton Hunsaker. Hunsaker had a career night with 37 points and 8 three-pointers, but UVU still managed to fall short. The New Year came rolling around, and the individual accomplishments kept coming as junior center Ben Aird had a career night of his own with 26 points, 13 rebounds and 10 blocks. Yet another triple-double for the Wolverines still couldn't get them a victory as they fell to conference rivals, NJIT. "It's hard to not have either one of those efforts rewarded with wins," head coach Dick Hunsaker said after the NJIT loss. 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Each one of us and took care of business with five players scoring in double digits while Aird, Thompson and resurgent senior Alfonzo Hubbard each scored 18 points. "This was a very nice team win tonight," coach Hunsaker said. "We played smart and intelligent, had good ball movement and made good decisions. Our overall effort and spirit was very good." The Wolverines didn't stop there when they took on Houston Baptist and blew them out by 21 points. Four players were in double digits scoring with Hubbard's 24 points leading the way. Every player had an assist that game, including Thompson's eight. The Wolverines are finally playing like a team. Although the individual accomplishments of Thompson, Hunsaker, and Aird won't go unnoticed, it is their team unity that is leaving a new mark under the win column. That's how Coach Hunsaker laid it out since the beginning of the season. "I think this team is going to be a much more balanced team," Coach Hunsaker said at the beginning of the season after their Meet the Team exhibition game. "They have to do it as a unit, as a team. I really look for us to be a better balanced team." With only 11 games left in the season, the Wolverines might have to pull out some magic from their 2011-2012 season when they won 13 of their last 14 regular season games. But it's not so much magic as it is a team effort to get those victories. Utah Valley will travel on the road to take on Chicago State before returning home to host the Bobcats of Peru State on Jan. 28. Teachers get creative SPENCER HARRIS/UVU REVIEW Administration hopes students take advantage of the next summer term. UVU BEEFS UP DEBORA ESCAIANTE/UVU REVIEW Education majors, as well as elementary and secondary school teachers, listen to a lesson at the Arts in Education Conference. Teachers learn creative tools for integrating music, theatre, dance and visual arts into Math, Science, Social Studies and Language at Arts in Education Conference By Natalie Sullivan Assistant News Editor 10656971@uvlink.uvu.edu The fifth annual UVU Arts in Education Conference, "Cultivating the Creative Mind," welcomed educators, specialists and administrators from throughout the state on Jan. 11 to the UVU Sorensen Student Center. This year's conference theme, "Designing Collaborative Spaces," focused on reviving creative thinking in elementary and secondary students though music, theatre, dance and visual arts education, even where it might be least expected - in a math or science lesson. In multiple workshops on the second floor of the Sorensen Center, teachers and education majors were taught by other educators about ways they have implemented arts into lessons within their classrooms. In an Elementary Drama focus workshop, teachers were taught to pantomime folktales to music and narraration. Workshop instructor Joe Rogan, previous theatre specialist at Glendale Middle School and Wasatch Elementary, explained that by incorporating music and movement to tell a story "theatre can be used as a tool to teach other subjects." This is also true for integrating dance into the curriculum at William Penn Elementary, where Jana Shumay said she teaches dance involving all core subjects including science, math and social studies. According to Shumay, the integrated arts curriculum "is all about getting kids out of their seats and letting them learn in a different avenue." Her school's program allows every student from kindergarten to sixth grade the opportunity to dance once a week for 40 minutes. Through the program, she and other teachers at her school have seen a greater push for creating and independent thinking. "They're not just doing rote learning or copying their neighbor, but they're trying to create and problem-solve," Shumay said. "It helps them retain information. See CREATIVE TEACHERS, A4 summer semester A recent effort has brought a change to summer courses By Alex Sousa News Writer Twitter @TwoFistedSousa Students can expect to see an improved summer semester this year. After a concerted effort by the administration over the last two years, they've started building a stronger class schedule for this oft under-utilized semester. While summer semesters are traditionally filled with general education courses and geared to- ward newer students, the administration has worked to build a class schedule that will benefit upperclassmen as well to help them take the courses they need. "UVU has a lot of momentum, and I think administratively they understood that and they know that summer semester is a way to help students and a way to serve students, to help students graduate," said Tiffany Evans, director of summer semester at UVU. After analyzing enrollment data from the last several years, department chairs and deans worked together to find out what changes needed to be made to the summer See SUMMER, A4 |