Kansas University’s athletic department will pay tribute to the victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy by having “Orange and Maroon Effect Day” today.

More than 700 T-shirts have been passed out for student-athletes and athletic-department officials to wear. Members of KU’s track and field team will wear the shirts at the Kansas Relays, while the baseball team plans to take batting practice in the shirts today at Texas Tech.

The idea was started by women’s basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson, who was a coach at Virginia Tech for 14 years before coming to Kansas in 2004.

“It’s something small you can do when you feel like you really can’t do anything at all,” Henrickson said Thursday.

A Virginia Tech student killed 32 people in two separate campus incidents Monday before killing himself. Other schools are paying similar tributes to the victims by donning the orange and maroon colors on campus today.