internal faculty documents, some with hundreds or thousands of signatures of faculty members not only from university of georgia but other universities in the university system of georgia collection of 26 public institutions. we sent out many petitions internally and have gotten no response at all that we could detect. we decided we needed to go to another level because this isn't something we could just delay, fall semester started, students were coming together. we waited for internal solutions to work and they didn't seem to go forward. so we decided to go another step. that was to make this mandate. that meant if we have a mask mandate, violates usga policy, that's grounds for dismissal. usg said they have that ability and authority to do so and so we