David F. Browne '01-'00, a Winthrop resident, said the application was not a hassle to complete, and that the honor was good news.

"I'm happy to hear about it," he said. "It's a very low maintenance thing."

The inductees, all members of the Class of 2000, are Nisha S. Agarwal, David A. Boyajian and Yoon-Ho Lee of Adams House; Li-Chung Chen, Aaron M. Einbond, Katerina Linos, Jacob A. Lurie, Michael S. Passaportis and Matthew C. Warburton of Cabot House; Joy L. Ishii, Aziz F. Rana and Grigory Tovbis of Currier House; Christopher B. Slowe of Dudley House; Carlye A. Murphy and Elizabeth C. Oelsner of Dunster House; Brian T. Chan, Geoffrey A. Fowler, Winifred M. Li, Margot L. Minardi, Thomas G. Saunders and Lauren A. Wetzler of Eliot House; Carl W. Davis and Laura T. Lee of Kirkland House; Jeremy P. Condit and James A. Hunter of Leverett House; Henry C. Fu, Albert C. Ju, Emma F. Phillips, Laura E. Rosenbaum, Randy Z. Wu and Yu Yasufuku of Lowell House; Chenghuan Chu, Ari M. Lipman, Nicholas R. Parrillo, Dmitry Sagalovskiy and Derek D. Smith of Mather House; Alice H. Pritikin and Hannah K. Reid Weiss of Pforzheimer House; Baer, Kentaro Fujita, David G. Harris, Matthew P. Humbaugh, Benjamin A. Rahn, Saloni K. Saraiya, and Sam Spital of Quincy House; Browne, Alicia M. DeSantis and Michael R. Grunwald of Winthrop House.

All of the students contacted yesterday said they were unaware of the honor.

Operating since the fall of 1781, Alpha Iota is the oldest continuously operating Phi Beta Kappa chapter in America.