I went to check out my school's gym for the first time last week and looked around. There were machines everywhere, treadmills, bikes, elipticals...and no free weights. I asked the manager, who is pretty big, where are all the free weights? He asked, "What do you want those for? We have machines out here." I said, "because I'd like to squat, and deadlift." He starts walking, tells me to follow him...and goes into a room. He turns on the light, says, "Welcome to the club brother." Bench presses, squat racks, GHR's, a leg press, a deadlift platform and dumbbells 5-100 lbs. He told me no one ever goes in there, or even asks about free weights, it got used so infrequently they keep the lights off and the door's usually closed. He said he uses it, along with a few baseball players, and some PLing guy. In the 3 years he's worked there, he said he's never seen more than 3 guys in there at a time.