St. Edward's requires masks to be worn inside campus buildings St. Edward's requires masks to be worn inside campus buildings The university's decision of a mask mandate for unvaccinated and vaccinated people comes after Austin-Travis County moves to Stage 4 COVID guidelines. AUSTIN, Texas - New students were taking summer orientation tours at St. Edward's University on Monday. The tours moved past several new warning signs that explained there is a new campus-wide rule that requires everyone to wear masks when inside any university building. "It is doable in the buildings, sometimes it does get a little uncomfortable, especially like if there is a large number of people because then you feel really hot, but otherwise, you've just got to accept what the higher-ups tell you to do," said Senior Cindy Navarro.