Laguna Beach High Students Find Racist Flyers in Lockers : Hate: Pupils and faculty ‘very upset,’ principal says. The predominantly white school has seen recent racial tensions.

Students arriving at Laguna Beach High School on Wednesday found racist flyers stuffed in their lockers, a discovery that shocked a campus already taking special steps to promote racial harmony.

Flyers were put into nearly all of the approximately 300 lockers on campus sometime Tuesday night, Principal Barbara Callard said. The flyers promoted white supremacy and contained racial slurs against several groups, including Latinos.

Administrators and student leaders went to every class in the morning to denounce what Callard described as an “unconscionable act.” A police report was filed and the Orange County Human Relations Commission was contacted for help.

“This is something we’re not going to tolerate on our campus,” Callard said. “We’re going to get to the bottom of it as quickly as possible.”

The flyers left the campus “very upset,” with both students and faculty feeling violated, Callard said.

A juvenile officer believed a similar flyer had been distributed in Los Angeles County, Callard added.

Although perhaps the first time racist flyers have been distributed on the campus, it is not the first racial incident there this school year.

The high school has experienced a series of incidents since autumn pitting white teen-age males against students of Mexican descent. Latino students are part of a small, slowly growing minority at Laguna Beach High, which has the highest percentage of white students in the county.

In response to the incidents and tension, the school has initiated a number of activities designed to promote racial harmony, including a series of multicultural events for the week of Feb. 14, Callard said.