I am always amused when one part of a taxpayer supported governmental body (The State of Oregon) takes money from another taxpayer supported governmental body (Oregon State University) as a 'fine'.   Often that means that the organization levying the 'fine' gets to keep the 'fine' for its own bureaucrats.  Of course, there are never any consequences to the taxpayer supported bureaucrats who screwed up in the first place.  It's good to be a bureaucrat.