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²ÝÁñÉçÇø photos by Sierra Coley

The Ernest N. Patty Building, known as the Patty Center, was dedicated in 1963. It houses the 1,648-seat ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Airlines Gymnasium for basketball and volleyball, a 25-yard swimming pool, courts for handball and racquetball, weight rooms, a rifle range, classrooms, locker rooms with saunas and a human performance laboratory.  

The center is home to the university's Reserve Officers' Training Corps program as well as ²ÝÁñÉçÇø’s athletic teams. ²ÝÁñÉçÇø fields teams in , and basketball,  and , , and  and. In 1979, a 1,300-seat ice arena was added on the west side of the center.

The center is named after Ernest Newton Patty, who joined the first faculty of the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Agricultural College and School of Mines as professor of geology and mining in 1922. Patty served as president of the university from 1953-1960.