Somewhere in the netherworlds of the Facilities Management Web site rests forgotten pieces of furniture just there for the taking.  Putting craigslist to shame, The Temple University Purchasing Surplus Database is where anyone can search through these abandoned treasures.
Sometimes, even Temple faculty is in the mood for some new digs.  If the desire to rid a department of extra furniture strikes a faculty member, they simply declare the item as “surplus” and Facilities Management hauls it off to be disposed of, thrown out, or moved to the university’s surplus database (the details).

I stumbled across the database and promptly asked Temple for an old couch.  An excerpt from the mail I got in return:

Thanks for your interest in the Surplus program. You now must send a
requisition to purchasing clearly marked surplus listing this item along
with a “ship to” address and your Dept. center number. Upon receipt I will
do a work request and have OFM pick it up and deliver it to where you
specify on the req. If you choose you can schedule a day and time to visit
the warehouse and see the item before you send the req. I recommend seeing
the item first as if it is delivered sight unseen and you don’t like it your
dept will pay to send it back to the warehouse.

If you can manage to get the appropriate documentation, you too can have Temple furnish your apartment with crappy dorm furniture.