Setting Finder Label for Apple Utilities?

Just ran into something interesting - I'm messing with some external drives and constantly going into disk utility. So, I thought I would assign a label to it to make it that much easier to find in the list of applications....
Except you can't! I checked and several Apple utilities sport the same behavior
I thought it might be a permissions issue, but playing around with permissions hasn't yielded anything, and googling around and searching hasn't turned up anything on this either.
How annoying! If anyone has any insight, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

So, I take it there is no way to make "Disk Utility" writeable from the Finder? Because I did play with the permissions.
Figures. Well, it's not something I feel compelled enough to research how to do it Terminal - it is annoying, though.
Thanks for your response.

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