Hollis System Crashes For One Hour

The University's HOLLIS on-line catalog computer system crashed yesterday, leaving HOLLIS screens inoperative for more than an hour.

HOLLIS workers in the Widener Library Systems Office were not sure exactly what had caused the major breakdown, which affected terminals between 3:10 and 4:45 p.m.

"We run HOLLIS, but there is a larger system that HOLLIS is connected to. One of the computers in the larger system probably crashed," said one library systems employee who asked not to be identified. The actual de-bugging of the system was done at Harvard's Computing Center on 730 Cambridge St.

The HOLLIS public catalog opened to the Harvard community in September, 1988 and yesterday's crash was the longest the system has been down since its opening. "The last time HOLLIS crashed was July 26, 1989," said Ed P. Tallent, reference librarian at Lamont Library.

All files on HOLLIS were backed up, so no information was lost in the crash.

Indian Exhibit to Come To Museum in March

In March, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology will unveil a permanent exhibit on the relations between Native Americans and settlers, a show administrators say will mark the museum's transition from a private academic center of anthropological study to a more public institution.

"We have turned from being focused on internal considerations of collection, management and documentation towards focusing on presentations of the collection to the public," said Leah McChesney, the museum's administrator of exhibitions.

Funded in part by $780,000 worth of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the exhibit will document the first 500 years of the relationship between American Indians and American settlers. The exhibit will examine how Native Americans adjusted to white culture while still preserving their way of life.

"There's no denying that whites spread diseases and caused mass genocides," said Ian Brown, the head curator of the museum. "Yet at the same time Indians were no passive reactors, often they would adapt creatively."

The curator said he worked extensively with anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and Hopi and Sioux Indians on the content and presentation of the exhibit.

Chess Champion Will Come to Harvard

World chess champion Gary Kasparov will be coming to Harvard on the weekend of October 27 to play a chess exhibition at Sanders Theatre, as part of a promotion of Soviet sports in the United States.

Kasparov, a Soviet citizen, is coming to Harvard to promote chess and other Soviet sports worldwide in conjunction with Glasnost, said Harvard Chess Club head Daniel H. Edelman '91.

The chess player will also discuss a new curriculum he has developed, which stresses chess as an academic discipline. Kasparov's curriculum has been proven to combat drug use in inner-city schools by endowing children with cognitive skills which allow them to make proper decisions concerning drugs, Edelman said.

During his three-day visit, Kasparov will meet with Harvard President Derek Bok and speak at the Russian Research Center.

On October 28, Kasparov will play an eight-person clock simultaneous exhibition. Three members of the Chess Club will play against the champion, Edelman said, including Vivek Rao '92, Issa Youssef '90 and Andrew H. Serotta '91. Kasparov will also face Anna Akhsharumova, one of the top woman players in America, an unannounced faculty member, an unannounced alumnus and two IBM computers.

Following the Saturday exhibition, Kasparov will give a brief lecture, hold a press conference, Edelman said.

On Sunday, Kasaparov will be present for the First Annual Harvard Chess Cup in which five of the stongest American chess players will play five computers, Edelman said. Before the tournament, Kasparov will make a few remarks on the future of computers in chess.

Kasparov, a Soviet citizen, will be visiting Harvard for the first time. The visit will be his first visit to New England and his third to the United States. He has already visited New York and Washington D.C.