The center includes the gymnasium, the department of athletics, and classrooms. Its name is meant to indicate the wide variety of events conducted there, including athletics, concerts, ceremonies and auctions.

Inside the Special Events Center is the Moore Memorial Organ. The Wurlitzer theater pipe organ is named for Marguerite Moore of Porterville, California, who donated it to the university in 1981. The organ was built in the 1920s for the CBS Hollywood Studios, and provided music for many of its radio programs during that era. The organ was refurbished and installed in the Special Events Center in 1986.

Research and text by Kevin Enns-Rempel, University Archivist, 2010