New York Times 2/15

I was especially interested in both the articles about the shooting in Alabama, and the surge of medical schools across the country, mostly because they both affect me in some way as a college student. I think that the opening of medical schools is a very smart idea, especially since they are trying to balance American medicine compared to the rest of the world. I thought they set up the story very well- using a personal anecdote of Peter Allen. The lead was intriguing too- "Peter Allen applied to 30 medical schools after graduating from the University of Pittsburg last year. Twenty-eight said no." They then zoomed out to the bigger picture and what is being done about this problem, and the two schools that Allen was accepted to.