The FIFA President Controversy

Over the past year FIFA President, Sepp Blatter has gotten himself in quite a mess. There has been many speculations regarding Blatter and the bribery scandal about the 2022 World Cup being held in Qatar. People feel that Sepp accepted a bribe to let Qatar host the 2022 world cup. Qatar hosting the world cup has had many changes being made to the tournament which is leaving many people unhappy. Since Qatar's climate is so hot one change they are making is that they are going to make the tournament in November and December rather than usually having it in June and August. Another controversial thing about the topic is that Qatar is in the Middle East and people are concerned about bomb threats on The biggest sports tournament in the world watched worldwide by over 2,000,000,000 ( 2 billion ) people. There has been lots of people who would say that they are going to run for the presidency but they all eventually fall through. Sepp Blatter's tenure as FIFA president suffered a new blow after the Swiss Attorney General opened criminal proceedings against him on "suspicion of criminal mismanagement." A statement released by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of Switzerland confirmed it was examining a contract signed by Blatter with the Caribbean Football Union and an alleged "disloyal payment" of $2 million to UEFA president Michel Platini.In a statement sent to CNN, Blatters lawyer Richard Cullen said: "We're confident that when the Swiss authorities have a chance to review the documents and the evidence they will see that the contract was properly prepared and negotiated by the appropriate staff members of FIFA." The big question asked here is that if there is this much complication and difficulty regarding Blatter and his job, is it worth keeping him as FIFA president.

In my opinion I think that Blatter should be fired. There has been so much controversy that people are starting to focus more on the President, than the actual game of soccer. There has been to much commotion and speculation going on regarding Sepp Blatter and the decisions that he has made that I think that they should get rid of him for good. If FIFA fire Sepp Blatter then we would stop focusing on bribery and speculation about the President position and finally focus on the 'beautiful game'

Air India Denies "Fat' People Access to fly

 

 

 

          

               Air India has decided to tell 125 crew members that they are not allowed to fly because they are simply "too fat". Reducing you luggage weight is manageable but reducing your body weight is not possible to quickly fix. The State Run Carrier warned 600 crew members that they are overweight and it is not good for passengers flying on Air India to look at. The 125 members were fired after they failed to reach an "adequate BMI" (Body Mass Index).BMI is reached by comparing somebodies height to their weight. It doesn't make you unhealthy if your BMI is high, but it remains a popular solution as it is very simple to calculate. This announcement came after the 600 people were told to shape up did not do so. 18-25 was an acceptable BMI for men while 18-22 was acceptable for women. Unfortunately for the staff members, the average BMI between the males and the females was 26 which means that they were unfit to be working for Air India. This also hasn't been the only time that there has been incidents involving Air India. In 2008 they didn't allow women with a BMI over 20 which was extremely sexist because at the time Men didn't have any requirements to meet in regards to their BMI

                I feel that this is very unfair and definitely unacceptable. In Todays society, people most likely do not care about body weight and obviously care more about kindness and generosity. Would it matter to you if your flight attendant wasn't the skinniest, or if your Pilot is the slightest overweight. I don't think body weight matters, especially on my way to vacation. The thing that I could care the least about is the staff on boards body weight. I am focused on getting to my location safely and having a good vacation. This should be a big thing in the news because this is not acceptable. People rely on these jobs to supply their family with food and shelter and they shouldn't be losing their job because their body weight isn't acceptable. Although it may be hard to seem, but some good has come out of this situation. Considering Air India wants their crew members to be physically fit, a member mentioned them to pay for their gym memberships. After that was declined Air India supplied all their "unfit" members with free yoga classes. Air India should give all their crew embers jobs back in my opinion because at the end of the day, firing someone because of their body weight, seems a little ridiculous. It seems that Air India only cares about body weight and just as a former crew member named Joshi Digla, who was fired said "weight is not an infectious disease" which means that weight has nothing to do with Generosity and Knowledge which are two characteristics that most flight crew members have and on Air India are clearly not being credited for.

                 





The Civvies Wage Change

         If you haven't already heard, the Bishop Reding community have decided to increase the Civvies wage from 10$ to 20$. Many people have mixed emotions in regards to this decision, some students agree with it and others feel that they shouldn't have to pay money to wear their own clothes.

       
    The Civilian wage has been increased from $10 to 20$ for the entire school year and there are two sides you can take , you either agree with the increase or you disagree with the wage increase. Reasons why students would agree with this is because although they are paying more money , they still get the privilege to wear their own clothes with little exceptions. Also, a reason why the wage is increased and why there even is a wage is to give the money to local charities that help with children who would like to play sports and join clubs who simply do not have enough money to do so. 20$ may seem like a lot of money to pay at the beginning of the semester but, previous years when my brother and sister went to school, they had to pay 2$ every single civvies day and considering that we have approximately 10 months of school then that would mean that we will have 10 civvies days. If you do the math 2 multiplied by 10 equals 20 so therefore we are paying the same amount as previous students at B.R had to pay. Every year prices go up , house prices, gas prices and even food prices. The staff believed that if all these prices keep increasing annually then why can't the price that the students pay for civvies days be increased as well.

   
    On the other side of things, we have many students who totally disagree with the wage increase.  Students feel that they shouldn't have to pay money to wear clothes that they already own let alone pay double of what they payed last year. Students also feel that its unfair because of the fact that on most civvies days , they are telling us what colour we have to wear because its a spirit day and if we decide that we don't want to wear that colour then we will get in trouble.


     In My opinion, I will pay the 20$ for the civvies. It is also beneficial because we know that the money we give for the civvies days are going to a good cause as we are helping children who cant afford to do the things that they would like, the opportunity to do so as well as giving a portion to our school so we can have enough money to provide us, the students with anything we may want throughout the school year. At the end of the day we all want to wear our own clothes and we don't want to be that kid who is wearing his/her uniform on civvies days