M mark hayes. Lisa i m lisa cooney. Your headlines are straight ahead. 31 degrees and some flurries. Randi we are starting out day with flurries and light snow showers. It is march, which is a good thing. We have a snowy picture. We are starting out with flurries and snow showers. I have seen a lot of salt roadways this morning. Right now very light snow showers through Hamilton County. Owenton, owen county, some decent snow showers. To the north of Hamilton County, light flurries there. We are watching flurries drift through this morning. South of louisville a gets warmer. We will eventually warm up and we will see rin ain mixing in. Here is the breakdown for today. 28 degrees. Noon, rain and snow. Through the afternoon, sunspots will have rain in some spots will have snow. Temperatures in the upper 30 s. The pavement should have no impact this afternoon. Mark . Mark new this morning, a driver is in the hospital after she flipped her car after hitting a parked car. This happened in we
Has not gone up . Has not gone up . We just came through a commencement season. That may say, i do not take the degrees lightly. Been into theng academy and having invited individuals to receive Honorary Degrees, i consider this quite an honor. A privilege, a joy, to be acknowledged for doing work. That is what not Honorary Degree is about. What an Honorary Degree is about. The fact that it can be connected to the young people, to their lives. Could we even assume that it could serve for inspiration for them . What is your approach to the commencement address . A new speech every time . I love commencements. Remember, i am trained as an anthropologist, so i know the importance of ritual and of ceremony. And i cannot think of a more a grander ceremony. However, that commencement speech is the toughest speech to do. Says, you know, my mom is good at speech. I do not like just recycling. But in every commencement situation, you have competing interests. The students basically just want th
Had 61 Honorary Degrees. Has that gone up . We just came through a commencement season. Let me say, i do not take the degrees lightly. A part of having been into the academy and having invited individuals to receive Honorary Degrees, i consider this quite an honor. A privilege, a joy, to be acknowledged for doing work. That is what an Honorary Degree is about. The fact that it can be connected to the younguns, as i like to call young people, to their lives. Could we even assume that it could serve for inspiration for them . What is your approach to the commencement address . A new speech every time . I love commencements. Remember, i am trained as an anthropologist, so i know the importance of ritual and of ceremony. And i cannot think of a more a grander ceremony. However, that commencement speech is the toughest speech to do. One of my sons says, you know, my mom is good at speechifying. I do my best. I do not like just recycling. But in every commencement situation, you have competi
You have competing audiences. And yet, it is a special moment. And it is captured in the word. It is the commencement. It is the beginning of a new leg in the journey of these young folk and sometimes not so young folk. So i love giving those speeches. You have been the director of the museum of african art since 2009. Why did you take the job . I want to share with you that i did my best not to take the job. I went through the process and i was about to be appointed. I picked up the phone and i called a fellow anthropologist. He is the undersecretary im sorry, yes, the undersecretary at the smithsonian. I said, richard, i am withdrawing. He said what . I said i am withdrawing. I said i am suffering from the penalty of expertise. All of a sudden, despite my passion for african art, i panicked. I am trained as an anthropologist, i am not an art historian, i do not have a phd in art history. And yet on two occasions i have the joy of cocurating an exhibition. I panicked. Richard, think g
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