The Pitt News
The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | september 11, 2018 | Volume 109 | Issue 20
CHANGING SEASONS MEANS MORE SALES FOR OAKLAND BUSINESSES
COMMUTING BY CANOE
Kieran Mclean Staff Writer
Fifth Ave.,” which has been an anthem for Pittsburgh teens and young adults since it first came out in 2011. Malcolm James McCormick would release this song under the rap pseudonym of Mac Miller and thus launch his international career. Miller gained international fame upon the
Headline: Fall population increase helps Oakland restaurants bring home the bacon Byline: Kieran Mclean, Staff Writer For students, autumn heralds pumpkin spice, sweaters and the mass migration back to school. For Oakland restaurants, that migration means business. “Summer is very slow,” Jashim Uddin, a cashier at beer store It’s Dogg’n It, said. “All of Oakland is like this. It’s a seasonal business.” And It’s Dogg’n It isn’t the only business that sees major seasonal changes. There were 28,642 combined undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus in fall 2017, according to the University fact book. While the number of students that stay through the summer is undetermined, the influx of more than 4,000 first-years into the fall semester alone is enough to turn Oakland from a desert into a zoo. Wada Abraham, co-owner of Antoon’s Pizza, estimates that her business increases approximately 200 percent during the school year. During the summer, her family can take Sundays off,
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A man kayaks in the middle of the flooded underpass by the exit for Ft. Duquesne Bridge in Downtown Monday evening. Anas Dighriri | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
MAC MILLER: MORE THAN A MUSICIAN
Sarah Connor
“I just remember seeing him in high school — he would come down to Central [Catholic] Roscoe Rhoden can easily recall a time be- and rap battle some of the kids there. I rememfore there was public dating drama, tours with ber in middle school, he was really popular with Wiz Khalifa and platinum albums, before the the high-school kids,” Rhoden said. “Older girls, name “Mac Miller” was known the world over high-school girls would hang all over him say— just a time when a Pittsburgh high schooler ing, ‘Oh my gosh! He’s so cute!’” This young man would go on to create the would rap to beats with his buddies in school. contagiously upbeat hip-hop tune “Party On
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