highly ranked colleges argue that race should not be excluded from the admissions process because it's important to have a diverse student body. jonathan hunt has this. hello, jonathan. >> hey, shep. the universities argue this is a first amendment issue. their admissions decisions are protects because they are "essentially educational judgments." they say the universities have to be allowed to exercise their judgment and use their expertise on how to set criteria for student admissions and how to encourage the kind of diversity that they believe will best enhance their institution and help students to have a rounded experience. now in the brief filed by all of the ivy league colleges along with others including george washington, johns hopkins and stanford, the schools write it would be an extraordinairy infringement to decree that universities of higher education cannot consider race at all in seeking to obtain that