Original sentence: Despite Dupont's elite status, in the minds of its students sex, alcohol, and social status rule the day.Noteworthily, it won the London-based Literary Review''s Bad Sex in Fiction Award, an "honor" established "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel.The novel met with a mostly tepid critical response.The student culture is focused upon gaining material wealth, physical pleasure, and a well-placed social status; academics are only important insofar as they help achieve these goals.Wolfe, Tom
Edited sentence: A drive for material wealth, physical pleasure, and a well-placed social status are priorities, and academics are only important insofar as they help achieve those goals.Although Dupont is an elite university, the atmosphere is typical of most colleges today - sex, alcohol, and social status rule the day.The novel was met with a mostly tepid response by critics, though its accuracy and selective focus were praised by many college students.The novel won a dubious award from the London-based Literary Review "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel