48 is a good age

dfgdIf you're Sunil Gulati, of course. And he is, today, marking the first time anyone has been wished happy birthday for two consecutive years by Bwog, which hopes it will be as dashingly handsome as the U.S. Soccer Federation prez when it gets that old.

The silver hair and sarcastic cracks get us every time.

Picture stolen from this charming profile.

See also: Birthdays, Sunil Gulati

July 30, 2007 @ 10:07 AM | Comments 7 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

Leading Men

Mr. Manley Cottingshire, capitalized commenter of yore, has submitted to us the following graphic. First time we've seen Sarkozy...on the left?

kjhj

See also: France, Sunil Gulati

May 7, 2007 @ 4:21 PM | Comments 23 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

Very Late Breaking News: Xavier's New Bling Bigger than Phelps'

As if trying to singlehandedly bring prosperity to Africa, or at least co-ordinate his wardrobe of fuschia, canary yellow, and shiny neon green blazers wasn't enough, Bwog has learned that Columbia's own (and only) Catalan economist, Xavier Sala-i-Martin, has been serving as president of FC Barcelona, which won the 2006 UEFA Champions League cup back in May (and if the preceding sentence made no sense to you, it's time to hit Wikipedia). We may have noticed sooner if we'd paid a more recent visit to his popular and entertaining webpage, which shows him hoisting the UEFA trophy aloft like a newborn, er, metallic child (newcomers to the world of Xavier are encouraged to click through to see what the Spaniard's site has up its sleeve for theorists, Marxists, Australians, and anyone who "bothers the flies").

This brings to at least two the number of Columbia econ professors associated with professional soccer (Sunil Gulati is president of the US Soccer Federation). If current trends continue, Bwog believes, everyone in the econ department will either hold a Nobel Prize or preside over the hopes and dreams of a wild, scarf-clad hooligan mob.

-CJS

See also: Economics, Soccer, Sunil Gulati, Xavier Sala-i-martin

October 16, 2006 @ 10:41 AM | Comments 11 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

When melting into the floor isn't enough

Bwog tipster Christopher Morris-Lent sent in the first--but certainly not the last--gem of the year from Sunil Gulati's Principles class:

hot dogGulati, speaking about inferior goods to a [presumably female] student: But would it hurt you to have a hot dog? If I gave you a hot dog right now, wouldn't it bring you some pleasure?

A pause, followed by laughter.

Gulati: ...I mean, consuming the hot dog.

Much more laughter.

CORRECTION: Our tipster made an erroneous assumption: Professor Gulati has informed us that the student was actually male.


See also: Double Entendres, Hot Dogs, Inferior Goods, Sunil Gulati

September 14, 2006 @ 11:47 PM | Comments 10 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

Happy Birthday, Sunil
Forty-seven years ago today, in Allahabad, India, Bwog's favorite international soccer tycoon was born. And it took him this long to get his own Wikipedia entry. Cheers, professor!

See also: Birthdays, Sunil Gulati

July 30, 2006 @ 6:38 PM | Comments 4 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

We know that look
Bwog would not want to be Landon Donovan--or anyone associated with the US Soccer Team--after our boys' 2-1 loss to Ghana yesterday. Sunil was not happy.

"This is where the entire world is watching," said the United States Soccer Federation president, with the kid of icy disapproval reserved for those who confuse Lorentz curves with Edgeworth boxes. "This is where you measure yourself. That didn't come out well."

Read the full New York Times article here .
See also: Soccer, Sunil Gulati

June 24, 2006 @ 2:51 AM | Comments 9 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

Too Soon, Sunil. Too Soon.
gulfcoast

John Klopfer reports: Gulati drew up this diagram for us in class today. Note the big smudges where Florida and Louisiana should be... He told us to stop making fun of his drawing, added Florida, changed his mind, erased it ("Who needs Florida, anyway?"), looked closer, smeared the crap out of the Gulf coast, and shrugged a little. Does that circle there look like a hurricane to you?
See also: Profs Say The Darndest Things, Sunil Gulati

April 25, 2006 @ 9:02 PM | Comments 8 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

Reconsider your goooooaaaalllls!
In today's New York Times, everyone's favorite Principles prof, Sunil Gulati, explains why you're better off at Columbia than pursuing your dreams of soccer stardom.

As if our Major League Soccer dreams needed any more dashing.
See also: Profs Say The Darndest Things, Sports, Sunil Gulati

April 14, 2006 @ 8:50 PM | Comments 7 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

When Professors Don't Do Their Homework ...
Can you lead a perfectly successful and happy life even if you've never read about Leopold Bloom masturbating on a Dublin beach? Everyone has that book (or those books) that they probably should have read by now, but have not.

Professors, we hypothesized, are no different. So we asked them to name the book they are most embarassed about never having read...

Philip Kitcher, Philosophy:
There are gaps in everyone's reading. I am embarrassed that I've never read anything by Heidegger. But that's nothing to an embarrassment of my (dark) past. Before coming to Columbia in 1999, after having taught philosophy for 25 years, I had never read Plato's Republic. Of course, the great thing for faculty about CC and Lit Hum is that we fill in some of the really glaring gaps in our past reading.

Victoria de Grazia, History:
I have to confess I haven't read the Bible. But that didn't used to bother me. Quite the contrary.
(Read more...)
See also: Alan Brinkley, Books, Nicholas Lemann, Philip Kitcher, Profs Say The Darndest Things, Sunil Gulati, Victoria De Grazia, Wm Theodore De Bary

March 26, 2006 @ 6:34 PM | Comments 3 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

The Bwog's 2nd Favorite Economist
Lydia DePillis speaks for all of us in Sunil Gulati's Global Economy class when she reports an inability to concentrate on Nobel Prize winner Robert Mundell's guest lecture today because of his eerie resemblance to Donald Trump. Mundell's photo doesn't quite do the parallel full justice; it's pre-awful auburn hair dye job.

(Read more...)
See also: Sunil Gulati, Tv

March 21, 2006 @ 7:20 PM | Comments 1 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

The Economics of Soccer
Beloved econ professor Sunil Gulati has always seemed to have a bit of an inferiority complex when it comes to his Nobel Prize-winning/poverty eradicating/just plain publishing colleagues. At least now he can cheer himself knowing he's the only one in the department elected president of the U.S. Soccer Federation.

Here's to better luck this time around, Sunny G.
See also: Faculty Gossip, Sports, Sunil Gulati

March 13, 2006 @ 3:08 AM | Comments 10 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

We Laughed Too...
Sunil Gulati on exchange rates: "Stay away from the health club, you want pounds."

Lag from the class.

Laughter.

- Ana Ortiz
See also: Overheard, Profs Say The Darndest Things, Sunil Gulati

March 2, 2006 @ 5:41 PM | Comments 9 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

Name That Prof
Our correspondent Jimmy Vielkind found the following on Overheard in NY:

Wednesday One-liner Cotton to Book Learnin'

Professor guy: I was going to give you all a quiz today. But then I realized that it was Valentine's Day. You're supposed to do something for the people you love on Valentine's Day. And of course, I love all of you very much. So...I decided to give you the quiz on pink paper instead!

--Columbia University


First person to identify "Professor guy" gets leftover Valentine's chocolates from the Bwog!
 Update: Too late! Contest over in a disturbing two minutes as "anado" claims the prize!
See also: Overheard, Profs Say The Darndest Things, Sunil Gulati

February 15, 2006 @ 7:38 PM | Comments 1 comments | Add comment Post a comment | | | Share on Facebook

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