Date:    1/5/98 8:42 AM
     
     
     
     
Mr. Arthur Levitt, SEC members;
     
The proposed rule S7-25-97 (the Stockholder Gag Rule) is inappropriate and 
offensive and must not be adopted.  Although smooth operation of corporations is
an important function to protect, restricting information to stockholders is not
an acceptable means of achieving this goal.  At a time in U.S. history when 
access to information is increasingly important, don't distinguish yourselves by
reversing this powerful trend.
     
Again, I encourage you to distinguish yourselves with regard to information 
access, and submit that such access is as important to you in your work as it 
is to the rest of us in ours.
     
Thank you.
     
Sincerely,
     
     
Andrea K. Breuner