Possible Clues:

• Alma mater of Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk: Abbr.
• Big Apple college, initially
• Northeastern inst
• Home of the NCAA's Violets
• Ross' employer, on ''Friends''
• Violets of the NCAA
• Wash. Square campus
• Sch. in Lower Manhattan
• Sch. whose team is the Violets
• School situated at Washington Sq.