developed its own investigative division, hiring lawyers, clerks - and interns like Kane. To give residents effective representation against attorneys at the United States Department of Justice, D.C. That organization is a product of unique circumstances: When citizens in the troubled District of Columbia are arrested, they are tried in the federal legal system. Kane, an English and Ethics, Politics and Economics major, was an investigative intern for the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C. Her job on campus is very different from the work she did with convicts over what she called a “harrowing” summer. Each time, she would pause to give them advice about the mysteries of freshman year. Welch residents who had just moved in interrupted our conversation every couple of minutes. We were sitting in her freshman counselor room on Old Campus. One cool midsummer night before classes began, Clare Kane ’14 told me what it was like to be threatened by a man with a gun.
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