The steering committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) yesterday released its plan to revamp the disciplinary system, and the dean of the FAS said that if the proposal is not approved, he will scrap the idea of reform.

After an 18 month review of the controversial Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), the Faculty Council yesterday made public a revised, four-page plan to replace the CRR with a 13-member student-faculty committee on discipline.

The Faculty Council in the next few weeks will seek input from students in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and from faculty members before sending the plan to a vote of the full faculty, said Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57. But Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence said that if the Faculty votes down the proposed plan, he will likely forego future efforts to change the CRR.

"Everything's been tried to reach some, sort of consensus," Spence said. "We've sort of exhausted every avenue we could."

"We haven't really faced the issue yet," Jewett, who chaired the proposal's drafting committee, said of the possibility of the Faculty rejecting the plan. "I don't know what we'd do. We may well be stuck with what we have."

Jewett said the plan is a successful attempt at finding the "middle ground" of the faculty and the students. "It's probably as good a composite piece our committee felt we could work out considering the various views of the people involved," he said.

Under the plan, the Administrative Boards of the College and GSAS would maintain the bulk of their powers, hearing cases of "cheating, plagiarism, theft, and instances of violence, harassment, and disorderly conduct that are essentially private matters."

The new body, which will have seven faculty members--one of whom will be a non-voting chairman--and six students, will hear cases with "broad implications for the community and on which there is no clear precedent or consensus in the community about the impermissibility of the actions or the appropriate response." After a case has been heard by the new committee, establishing a precedent, future cases of a similar nature would be heard by the Ad Board.

The CRR, created by the Faculty to enforce its 1969 Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, has been used to hear cases arising from political protests. Students have refused to sit on the committee which has seven voting faculty members and six students.

The Faculty will have the power to overturn the decisions of the boards. The Faculty did not have authority over the CRR.

The shantytown constructed in the Yard last April by divestment ac- tivists is a good example of a case that wouldhave been heard by the new body, Jewett said,adding that there was a question of whether theshanties constituted a discipline problem or werean appropriate expression of free speech.

Other provisions of the reform plan include:

.six student representatives chosen by lotteryfrom a pool of all registered students;

.six faculty and administrative representativesand a chairman who will vote only on "routineprocedural issues";

.an open hearing at the defendant's requestunless the body votes by two-thirds to close thehearing to "maintain good order "or "to protectthe rights of students involved."