Football fans on their way into Rice-Eccles Stadium on Saturday night weren’t seeing things. There on the hill next to the Block U, illuminated in red and white, was a second U — in purple.
Yes, purple is a combination of BYU blue and Utah red, the colors of the teams facing off on the field. But it was intended as something more than that — a call for action on global warming.
“This is a bigger issue than the football game going on tonight, but a lot of people are paying more attention to that,” said Madison Marichuch, a senior at the University of Utah who’s majoring in environmental studies.