I recommend that you change colleges.
Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've ‘exercised.
The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar
The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch
A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.
I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.