Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A federal judge on Friday upheld the legality of the U.S. Naval Academy's race-conscious admissions program, agreeing it is in the U.S. national security interest to have a racially diverse military officer corps. U.S. Senior District Judge Richard Bennett sided with the academy's arguments that its narrowly crafted admissions program, which uses a prospective midshipman's race as one of the determining factors, passes legal muster under a Supreme Court decision from last year