Date:    1/5/98  1:16 PM
Subject: s7-25-97
     
To Arthur Levitt, Securities and Exchange Commission
     
I'm writing to express my opposition to rule S7-25-97 (the stockholder gag rule)
     
This proposed rule would prevent many motions and information on issues 
including fair employment practices (such as sex and race discrimination 
and harassment) from being brought to stockholders' attention.  The rule 
would also prevent questions on gender balancing boards, the use of child 
labor, and other ways that employees, investors and customers force 
corporations to clean up their acts when they have refused to act on their 
own.
     
As a stockholder in a number of firms I want to know what the companies of 
which I own a part, however minimal, are doing so I have the information I 
need to invest ethically.
     
Harriet Baber
     
Dr. Harriet Baber * Department of Philosophy * University of San Diego
           5998 Alcala Park * San Diego * California * 92110
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