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...something that student groups would want to be counting on as a continual source of support for yearly travel,” Sundquist said. “We hope to subsidize unique or special opportunities that arise for student groups.” Harvard Ballroom Dance Team Treasurer Viki Chernow ’11 said she hopes the Student Life Fund will allow the team to send members to new competitions at the regional and national levels. Student organizations may apply for the new grants starting today, on a rolling basis. They may apply either prospectively—at least...
...Viki Stevenson stands behind the counter, passing fashion judgment. She's wearing a gauzy black Viktor & Rolf blouse and skinny Diesel jeans as she sorts through a pile of clothes in the shop where she works in Brooklyn, N.Y. After rejecting a high-waisted, sequined pink skirt, she snaps up four G-Star narrow-cut cotton T shirts. "You gotta know your brands," she says, as she tosses the keepers into a metal...
Grief-stricken by the eventual death of her beloved father, who is played with by Voi Feseaitu in a performance of tender devotion, Viki runs away from her home and into the wilds of the jungle. In her forsaken state, Viki finds solace in her promise to her father. She finally realizes that she does, in fact, have the power to combine the integrity of her traditional values with the ambition of her Western education, and thus stay true to herself without abandoning her heritage...
...Viki is played sincerely, if perhaps a bit too stiffly, by the striking Sapeta Taito, who always manages to appear as if she has just stepped out of a Gauguin canvas. Though untrained, first-time actress Taito gracefully carries the film, projecting such emotional intensity and fearless innocence in her role and capturing Viki’s restless confusion and defiant courage. With fire in her big, brown eyes, Viki has the air of a girl who could look unflinchingly at anything in the world, and yet still retain the soft naiveté that comes with adolescence...
This salient conflict pervades the film and is subtly highlighted by Hereniko’s direction of the most mundane aspects of daily life. Viki is in many ways a typical Rotuman girl, learning traditional dances and helping her father harvest coconuts; however, she also studies English in a modern, Western-style school and dreams of earning a prestigious scholarship to leave Rotuma for the big island of Fiji...