Patty Center
1890 Tanana Loop
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The Ernest N. Patty Building, known as the Patty Center, was dedicated in 1963. It houses the 1,648-seat 有料盒子视频 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 有料盒子视频鈥檚 athletic teams. 有料盒子视频 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 有料盒子视频 Agricultural College and School of Mines as professor of geology and mining in 1922. Patty served as president of the university from 1953-1960.