added link to all stories to header and footer of page (for convenience), attempted to get multiselect to work.  it does not work.  It does not capture the ids of the selected stories as an array parameter and the stories controller's multiselect method is hard-coded to go to certain stories.  We have a gray button which does not go to the correct action in the stories controller.  We have a custom button which goes to the multiselect page but does not filter on the selected stories.
more attempts to make multiselect work
Able to select multiple stories and have them appear on a separate page.  Able to change the status of the selected stories.  Need to investigate why the hidden field does not appear in the HTML rendering, as this may affect when we have more than one field which we change on the edit_multiple page.  Need to figure out where to go after hitting submit on the edit_multiple page (currently, if the update is successful, no stories are displayed on the edit_multiple page, for example).  Need to fix formatting of the edit_multiple page.  The buttons relating to this functionality, both on index and on edit_multiple pages are not our project's standard buttons.  We do not want to display the Edit Selected button on the edit_multiple page as this is not useful and clicking one of these buttons throws an unhandled exception.  Also, on the index page, we cannot select stories from more than one status group as the Edit Selected button there applies to only a particular status group.