US UNIVERSITY STUDENTS STAGE PROTESTS OVER LIVING WITH RATS, COCKROACHES, MUSHROOMS

Outraged Howard University undergraduate students claim they are being forced to live in deplorable housing conditions with rats, cockroaches, mold and mushrooms plaguing their dorm rooms.

More than 100 students at the historically black college in Washington, DC, have been staging a two-week protest over their living conditions after accusing university administrators of ignoring their complaints.

The students have pitched tents on school grounds and have been sleeping en masse in the school's main student center, Blackburn University Center, as the protest continues.