February 3, 2010

ATLANTA (AP) -- A Kennesaw State University nursing student died Sunday morning after drinking until he passed out at a party the night before.

Authorities say they're awaiting a toxicology report on exactly what killed 21-year-old Dorian Richard Varcianna.

Authorities say he was was at an off-campus party Saturday night in Kennesaw where he blacked out and never woke up.

Varcianna's younger brother Fabian says he left the party around 6:30 a.m. Sunday and his brother appeared to be sleeping. But, when the younger brother checked again around 9 a.m., he told police Dorian's "skin was cold and he was not breathing."

KSU spokesman Michael Sanseviro says the party was not a campus-sanctioned event and was not related to the rush initiation.

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