NO TEDDY BEARS at my university, please. You'd think that the first anniversary of the beginning of a war might be a good opportunity for university classes to engage some big ideas, such as "did globalization cause September 11?" or "why was the World Trade Center in Sri Lanka bombed (not by al-Qaeda)?" or "why doesn't attacking office towers stop the economy?" or "might catastrophic failure be anticipated and prevented without lots of deaths?" or "compare and contrast the martyrdom heresy with the Manichean heresy?" No doubt there are other topics that have occurred to others. These "tips for instructors", however, confine themselves to advice about how people react differently to bad news. Fine, and thank you for letting me know, but there's nothing in those tips that the organizer of an encounter group, or the owner of a child-care center, would not be able to use.