Take Note: Wanna dance? Get a date

Like many students, 17-year-old Kelly Noah takes issue with one of her school's official policies.

Unlike other students, Ms. Noah, a student council member, has become a campus activist and something of a media sensation in her hometown of Chicago because of her opposition to the policy. The Chicago Sun-Times newspaper and local television stations picked up the story late last month.

For, at Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School, an all-girls Roman Catholic school on the city's South Side, students cannot go to a school dance unless they have a date--a guy date. No all-girl groups,...