Students interested in helping with Haiti relief have two options for lunch today as the UI holds two benefits over the noon hour.

A special Lunch with the Chefs titled “The UI Unites to Help Haiti” will run from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the IMU Main Lounce. The lunch will cost $10, $6 of which will go toward the Grant Wood Area American Red Cross’ Haiti relief fund.

Chefs will offer a traditional Haitian menu: potato and beet salad, garden salad with lime chile vinaigrette, chicken creole, red beans and rice, and pineapple carrot cake with citrus glaze. Lucy Joseph, a Haitian UI graduate student, conceived the idea. They’re aiming to raise $5,000.

Hungry members of the UI community west of the Iowa River can stop by the Boyd Law Building for the UI College of Law’s Haitian earthquake relief benefit luncheon at 11:30 a.m. The lunch is $15 for students and $30 for faculty; all proceeds will go to the American Red Cross. UI law Professor Marcella David will talk about international legal issues related to the relief process at the event.

— by Kristin Lutz