Date:    1/5/98  1:42 PM
     
To:   Securitites and Exchange Commission 
From: Linda Joplin, Davis, CA

Re:   Opposition to rule S7-25-97
     
I hope that the Securities and Exchange Commission will 
vote against the proposed rule that would prevent many stockholder 
initiatives from being deliberated and voted upon at open stockholder 
meetings.  
     
Key among the stockholder motions that would be outlawed are those that 
affect women.  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.