DIVING IN: Nearly 95,000 San Fernando Valley...

DIVING IN: Nearly 95,000 San Fernando Valley residents had taken the plunge into car-pooling and van-pooling by the time of the 1990 U.S. census. Sharing transportation was most popular in the northeast Valley, where 21% of residents pooled rides. That’s six percentage points above the average for Los Angeles as a whole. The figures are for drivers 16 and older.

TURMOIL TO THRILL: How did Cal State Northridge’s football team end a week that began with a player boycott of practice and included student protests, the loss of two starters and the suspension of another? The Matadors upset Nevada Las Vegas, 24-18. (C14) . . . Northridge running back Robert Trice surpassed his school rushing record, set two weeks ago, by gaining 278 yards and scoring three touchdowns.

PRISON SCHISM: Antelope Valley residents told Lancaster City Council members to take their proposed new prison facility and shelve it. (B1) . . . In the wake of a recent escape from a state prison there, they want no new such buildings in the area. City Council members said that given the opposition, the proposal is probably dead for the time being.

TOUGH GUY: If President Clinton is to get his health reform package through Congress, he’ll likely have to stay on the good side of Rep. Henry Waxman, whose district includes parts of Studio City and Sherman Oaks. (M3) . . . Waxman, whose in-fighting skills are legendary, has been chairman of the powerful health subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee for 14 years.

NAME CHANGE: M - I - C --See you later, Walt Disney Elementary. K-E-Y-- Why, because people mistakenly think that the school, which is part of the Burbank public system, is richly endowed. (B1) . . . Columnist Scott Harris takes up the topic of a school’s name change.

Pooling It

Percentage of Valley workers car-or van-pooling, by region: Southeast Valley: 23,443 (13%) Northeast Valley: 27,155 (21%) Northwest Valley: 22,746 (14%) Southwest Valley: 21,266 (13%) Source: 1990 U.S. Census