From: Jgbasker@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 3:18 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: (no subject) (s7-10-03)

Dear SEC,

I've learned that you are reviewing the rules that govern how corporations 
elect and empower board members and I write to say that I think this is a 
terribly important undertaking. As someone who has retirement funds and 
other investments in the stock market, I am dismayed at the recent corporate 
governance scandals and I am painfully aware of how hard it is for stockholders 
to get their voices heard or to have real influence on the election, compensation, 
hiring or firing of board members or corporate executives. Please review the 
whole thing thoroughly -- everyone I know who has any consciousness at all of 
corporate governance feels very strongly about it.

With thanks,

Jim Basker


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James G. Basker
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English, Barnard College, Columbia University
601 West 110th Street
New York, NY 10025
212-531-3732
fax: 212-531-0653