Furnishings also may signal political clout. A private business school in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has run-down facilities. The school, an offshoot of a public university, is housed on two floors of the university. The two floors are in terrible shape. Holes in the walls, lack of paint,dingy lighting, and a broken heating system are all the result of years of neglect. Yet this business school is the most innovative in the country. Politicians send their children there because they know will get a Western education. Employers in Uzbekistan and foreign firms like hire the graduates. The manager Eurasia Foundation in Uzbekistan offered to provide the money for an updating of the facility, but the director of the school declined. She would have liked a better facility, but she figured it was not worth the price. She was convinced that as soon as the two floors were renovated, the university would all of a sudden find that it really needed that space. However, it would happily provide space on other floors, which of course were in bad shape as well. Because furnishings in Uzbekistan indicate power, the university probably would claim the two floors for itself if they were to be refurbished. In this case furnishing and surroundings show power, but the power structure makes it dangerous to show the power through better facilities.