Caricatures
Election Day is on November 8.
The decision has boiled down to Donald Trump, a businessman, and Hillary Clinton, a weathered politician.
The 2016 election has amplified strong views on education, immigration reform, terrorism and women's rights.
These are Stony Brook students who have been turned into caricatures over the past year.
UNEDUCATED
"Being a student at Stony Brook has allowed for me to be involved in several minority organizations. I've been on campus for four years and have personally seen stereotypes negatively impact these minority organizations. Events that the student body used to love such as Latin Weekend, Black Women's Weekend, and the Homecoming step show have been met with limited resources and support and thus have become less prominent events on campus. To see these powerful events dwindle through time has been especially sad for me." - Mo' Tahir
ILLEGAL
"When I would go to the mall at 'expensive' stores they would treat me different than others who were mostly white to the point that I had no service at all. In school I was told to just apply to community colleges because all Hispanics just go there. And at work I was told to watch my mistakes by my boss (a white guy) because I was an illegal immigrant, which I'm not." - José Hernandez
ASKING FOR IT
"I've had a lot of experience with the stereotypical sexism. Like, I should take cat calling as a compliment, an somebody actually told me that I look like I'm 'really asking for it in that top' and stuff like that. I actually tried doing a protest in my school to teach proper sex ed and consent in health class to all sexes and genders and in reference to all relationships, and the principal took it away and said it was inappropriate." - Lauren Weisburg
TERRORIST
"Well, besides being called a terrorist and stuff, a lot of Sikhs, especially recently, have been victims of violent hate crimes. Because some person, who has no idea who we are, thinks we are Muslims and furthermore that we are terrorists. Maybe they think they're protecting the country. I guess that's the extent of ignorance. People are scared, but they don't know what they are scared of, so it's easy to point at someone who looks different and assume." - Jaskirat Singh