As this blog reported Friday, Nanuet resident Bruce Brown is behind an effort at Texas A&M University to sell T-shirts to raise funds for the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund.

Since then, the effort has ballooned to include the University of Texas, and you can even buy the T-shirts online. The shirts say

“Orange and Maroon support Orange and Maroon We Remember 04.16.07” on the front and “The eyes of Texas are upon you…For your spirit can ne’er be told; In times of greatest tragedy; You have a hand to hold” (One of A&M’s colors is Maroon and one of UT’s is Orange. Virginia Tech’s colors are Maroon and Orange.

Check out the group’s Facebook page, plus you can buy the shirts online through TAMU’s box office (click on “online tix” in the left-hand sidebar).

Available sizes are adult: small, medium, large and XL and they cost $10 to cover the cost of shipping. The sale started at 9 a.m. Central time today and ends at 5 p.m. Central (that’s 6 p.m. here in on the East Coast) May 2.

Wanna know more?

Read this article from A&M’s student newspaper, The Battalion, or this press release from A&M’s News & Information folks

Where:

UT sales: Main mall @ 7pm on Monday April 23rd

A&M sales: MSC Box Office @ 9am on Monday April 23rd

How: With the support from CC Creations we will be able to begin distributing over 3000 shirts on Monday!!

Why: Because Texas A&M and University of Texas students feel a strong commitment to their friends in Virginia.

For More Information please email orangeandmaroon@msc.tamu.edu!

Texas A&M University Contact: Andria Groover ‘08

University of Texas Contact: Jordan Davisson ‘08

According to TheBatt.com, the Web site for A&M’s student newspaper The Battalion, Brown is working with fellow mechanical engineering major Stephen Peck, Brown is working to bring varied campus organizations together to sell T-shirts to benefit Virginia Tech’s fund. They’re getting the T-shirts and Bruce Brown are bringing organizations on campus together to sell T-shirts to benefit Virginia Tech University in its time of mourning.

The T-shirts will arrive Monday and will be on sale through May 9, the last day of classes.

They’ll also hang a huge banner with Virginia Tech’s logo on it that anyone can sign.

Want to know more? Send an e-mail or join the Facebook group “Aggie VT Support.”

Also raising money:

• NY Jungle Hair, Body & Soul, a Tappan spa, will donate $5 for every client they serve today (Friday, April 20) through Sunday (April 22). They’ll also collect any donations folks would like to give — make checks payable to Virginia Tech Foundation Inc. and write “Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund” in the memo line. The spa will forward all donations to Virginia Tech on April 30. Wanna know more? Send an e-mail, call 845-398-0511 or stop by 15 Route 303, Tappan.