Georgetown Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) students went head-to-head on Friday, March 28 at Georgetown University in an academic debate.
The annual MSFS-SAIS debate tradition began years ago as a way to bring MSFS and SAIS together in a competitive, intellectually stimulating forum. It has now become a much anticipated annual event full of school spirit and partisanship.
The 2014 debate between these two top schools of international relations centered around the proposition “that the US should actively promote democracy abroad.”
Sarah Grebowski (MSFS’15) and Simon Harari (MSFS’15) represented MSFS and competed against Kate Maxwell and Luke Penn-Hall from SAIS. MSFS emerged victorious at the end of the night against the stiff competition, and the winner’s plaque therefore remains with MSFS until next year, when SAIS again has the opportunity to win the plaque.
A happy hour followed the debate, with proceeds going to Georgetown’s community service organization HUGS.