What Really Is a Warning?....

Apparently people here at NIU consider the definition of warning something much different then I do. When I hear the warning the definition that pops into my head is, that you did something wrong and don't do it again or else you get in trouble. Well here at NIU apparently a warning consists of a fine as well. One day I was burning an inscent which I didn't think that it was to big or a deal because most of my friends do it out here and I have done it a couple times before. So I had this inscent burning and I left to go to my friends dorm for a couple of minutes. Well, right when I got to my friends dorm my phone rings, and it was my roommate. I wasn't to sure why she was calling me because I had just talked to here about ten minutes before that. When she said " oh by the way you just got written up for burning your inscents, and you have to go and see the CA as soon as you get back". That made me really nervous, so I made my friend come up to the room with me to go and talk to my CA which I was really scared about. She told me that I was just going to get written up and that nothing else was going to happen. While a couple of days ago, I went over to my mail box to see if I had anything and I had a fine for twenty five dollars! I was shocked and very angry, I still and very unsure on what to do because I don't want to pay it because she said i was getting written up and this was just a warning if it happens again. Over all I think that NIU housing needs to stop trying to fine us for every little thing and learn what the word warning means.