A young man with big-rimmed glasses, a beard and a naked baby doll told puns from center stage as the audience’s laughter grew. Fourth-year linguistics student Landen Baldwin said he tries to be lighthearted during any situation. Read more...

Photo: Comedian Landen Baldwin, a fourth-year linguistics student, was involved in UCLA Rapid Fire Improv and HOOLIGAN Theatre Company while at UCLA. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo Editor)

Leanna Maaz embarks on a scavenger hunt every time she travels abroad. In each city she explores, she collects a souvenir that contains the name of the city and arranges the items in a scrapbook to document her journey. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumna Leanna Maaz started decorating graduation caps after her friends saw her own personalized grad cap when she graduated last year. Since then, Maaz has started a grad cap decorating business for current graduating students after posting an ad in UCLA’s Free and For Sale Facebook page. (Courtesy of Leanna Maaz)

Some friends finish each other’s sentences, but Alberto Loaiza and Kevin Yang finish lines of each other’s poetry. Loaiza, a fourth-year English and Chicana/o studies student, and Yang, a third-year world arts and cultures and African American studies student, are two of four members of UCLA’s slam poetry team and staff members for The Word on Wednesday, the Cultural Affairs Commission’s open-mic poetry group. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year student Alberto Loaiza and third-year student Kevin Yang will both graduate in June after working together on poetry through the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)