the clear-cut rules feel reassuring to sarita mehta. >> i feel, you know, way safer in all my interactionsl classrooms, in the stadium that's packed-- knowing that "a," i'm a lot safer being vaccinated, but "b," and just as importantly, the people around me are vaccinated and not at risk, either. and i think that's an important part of it, too. and that kind of ties back to the larger community, we all can count on each other to be safe. >> sreenivasan: but the balae seems off to others. grad student tristan baird was shocked by the national headlines about his school kicking out students. >> the disenrollment, to me, i just, i don't know. i think it is, it's very authoritarian, and just severe to me. i don't like the idea of saying if you don't agree with this particular health mandate, that you are no longer allowed to come back and finish your degree. >> sreenivasan: still, recent national polls show that students overwhelmingly support vaccine and mask mandates, even on campuses that do not have them. one ominous reason may be that several universities, from texas to california to conn