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The office of First-Year Experience at BYU hosted its First-Year Story Slam on Oct. 8.

Students at BYU get involved with the world around them every year, traveling for service projects, capstones and studies abroad.

When BYU student Ashlyn Hanzon died in a car crash in October 2021, her professors Mat Duerden and Jamin Rowan mulled over the best way to respond. Duerden and Rowan directed a study abroad trip to the London Centre in early 2020 in which Hanzon was a participant. The professors wanted to find the best way to support the student’s family and other students involved in the study abroad.

Their neighbors knew if they heard uncontrollable giggling, endless chatting and off pitch singing at two in the morning, it was probably just Ashlyn and Hailee.

Jamin Rowan, second from right, speaks at a Provo City Planning Commission meeting on April 11, 2018. Rowan has served on the Commission for several years and said he often sees 'not in my backyard mentality' regarding zoning regulations. (Eleanor Cain)

Resident Matt Baker explains why he requested to delete a sentence including the housing density maximum in Chapter 6 Southwest Area Neighborhoods to the Provo City Planning Commission on April 11, 2018. Jamin Rowan, far left, said the Commission unanimously recommended that the Municipal Council deny the proposal at this time. (Eleanor Cain)