Ives Hall is either half warm or half cold, depending on who you ask. The temperature at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the center room was 61 degrees Fahrenheit, up 5 degrees from 3 p.m. Monday. The classrooms upstairs and the computer room measured between 70 and 72 degrees Fahrenheit, up 16 degrees from Monday. ‘The coffee in my cup still froze over night, but it is a little warmer,’ said Shane Chandler, a graduate student in architecture. Chandler said he could not tell the temperature in his studio because all the thermometers he and other students brought in had been stolen. The upstairs rooms of Ives Hall have undergraduate studios and the downstairs rooms have graduate studios.Kirk Donges, a junior majoring in architecture, said, ‘This room was cold yesterday, but its warm now.’ ‘If it stays this warm we’re going to be real happy,’ he said. ‘The center room is always cold, there is no way you can heat that place.’Dick Lighthiser, director of maintenance, said physical facilities has been trying to raise the temperatures. ‘Things are better than yesterday,’ Lighthiser said. ‘We have no plans to do anything but continue to check the temperature, fans and coils.’ ‘We check the temperatures several times every day,’ he said.Jerrold Voss, director of the School of Architecture, visited the building Tuesday. ‘I visited the building and the studios weren’t toasty, but they were comfortable enough to work in,” Voss said . ‘I think the university is to be congratulated for making a Herculean effort to heat an old building.’He also said OSU is planning to either build a new building or renovate Ives Hall in the next few years. Voss said $20 million has already been allocated from donations and other sources to fund the project. Doug Emert, a graduate student in architecture, said, ‘People are still cold, the ceiling fans being turned off helped, but its warmer outside today so its hard to tell.’ ‘I just wonder if there is some kind of regulation for how cold a room in an accredited institution can be,’ he said.Chris Upchurch, a registered nurse at Columbus Community Hospital, said temperatures around 40 degrees Fahrenheit can cause hypothermia after long periods of time. Emert said he made some phone calls about the temperature as early as Thanksgiving and the situation did not improve. He does not feel the 59 degree Fahrenheit reading in his studio, Room 114, is acceptable.