  We study the effect of Scherk-Schwarz deformations on intersecting branes.
Non-chiral fermions in any representation of the Chan-Paton gauge group
generically acquire a tree-level mass dependent on the compactification radius
and the brane wrapping numbers. This offers an elegant solution to one of the
long-standing problems in intersecting-brane-world models where the ubiquitous
presence of massless non-chiral fermions is a clear embarrassment for any
attempt to describe the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
