Georgia Beatty of Weirton, W.Va., said she gave up a spot at New York University in favor of West Virginia mainly because of the price difference.

But she has butted heads with her grandfather, a retired police officer, who believes that universities radicalize students, and that going out of state will make it worse, especially in this protest era.

“There’s always been a distrust in my family of higher education,” she said. “I’m sort of the black sheep.”

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