Requiring CSU vaccines is the responsible course

Re: “Vaccines should be required for all CSU students” (Editorial, Page A8, April 16):

I am just as concerned as you are that CSUs are not requiring students to be vaccinated.

San Jose State University’s president is promising our student body in-person instruction beginning in the fall 2021 semester. The issue is lectures with as many as 300 people attending can cause a major outbreak of COVID-19 if only a portion of the student population is vaccinated. Putting students, staff, co-workers and housemates at this much risk is irresponsible.

The CSU board of directors desperately needs to rethink the decision of not requiring students to be vaccinated, and people need to show their concern by sharing their voices and opinions.

A campus free of worry about a deadly virus is a campus people will want to be on. It should be a place where everyone is comfortable and able to focus on things like expanding their knowledge.

— Kelsey Guderian, San Jose