WEST LONG BRANCH — Monmouth University students, frustrated with regular sightings of rodents in a campus dorm, despite their complaints to school officials, are fighting the infestation with their own traps, according to The Outlook, the university's student-run newspaper.

Residents of Elmwood Hall told the student newspaper that they were purchasing their own traps to manage the problem.

One video of a dead mouse posted to Instagram received more than 9,800 views, according to the newspaper.

"While Residential Life has worked on resolving the issue, many residents are infuriated with lack of communication from the higher ups in Residential Life and the university," Landon Myers, an Elmwood resident assistant, told The Outlook. "The sentiment within the building is, ‘Who wants to pay all this money for housing to then share it with rodents?’"

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Monmouth University tuition is $18,719 per semester for full-time students and a single room in Elmwood Hall can cost more than $5,000 per semester, according to the university's website.

Patricia Swannack, vice president of the university's administrative services, said staff were responding promptly to reported mice sightings and were working to resolve the issue.

"Our contracted exterminator regularly visits our campus twice a week and has treated Elmwood Hall specifically on three occasions so far this month," she said in a statement to the Press.

No new reports of mice had been received since Feb. 11, Swannack said last week.

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"We remain diligent in educating our students and staff on the importance of proper food disposal and elimination of clutter," she said. "We understand that this is very frustrating for our students, and as long as we have space available, we will continue to honor student requests to relocate while we mitigate this problem."

Mice and rats are responsible for spreading more than 35 diseases worldwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Eliminated food sources for rodents, sealing small holes into homes and trapping existing rodents is the best way to prevent rodent diseases from spreading to humans, according to the CDC.

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