COVINA, Calif., June 28 (UPI) -- Officials at a California high school say they are trying to find out why students were allowed to have false names for black students put in the yearbook.

Clint Harwick, superintendent of Charter Oak High School in Covina, Calif., said it was a "regrettable mistake" that names including "Tay Tay Shaniqua," "Crisphy Nanos" and "Laquan White" were printed in the yearbook for members of the Black Student Union.


"It appears that during the process of creating the yearbook, filler names were put in and not corrected at the proofreading part," Principal Kathleen Wiard said.

Students at the school were able to get stickers with the appropriate names to cover up the blunders, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.

"We're doing everything we can to remedy the problem. This is not the standard of our yearbook by any means," Harwick told the Times.